The Harlem Renaissance Thesis Statment: The Harlem Renaissance was a giant step in the development of African American cultural and social history; also known as the New Negro Movement brought forward an outburst of African American literature, music, entertainment and art, but to truely understand what the Harlem Renaissance is then you must take a lokk also a Harlem during the period. The 1920s and 30s. What a place, what a time WHAT AN IDEA. …
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…material things. Toomer's novel was one of the first to treat the subject of the African American life with dignity, respect, and realism--part of the aesthetic Harlem Renaissance writers ascribed to in writing, poets in poetry, artist in art. My report will give many examples of poems, art, and pictures of the Hralem Renaissance. I've even included a chronology ordered time-line of impotant events, and publications, of the Harlem Renaissence, for Mr. Lyons history class