Black Culture and the Harlem RenaissanceHarlem symbolized the urbanization of black America in the 1920s and 1930s. Home to the largest concentration of African Americans who settled outside the South, it spawned the literary and artistic movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. its writers were in the vanguard of an attempt to come to terms with black urbanization. They lived it and wrote about it. |
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Chapter 2 Booker T Washington W E B DuBois and | 30 |
Literary Roots | 48 |
Chapter 4 The Emergence of the Renaissance in | 64 |
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