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- noun a period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
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Her life, echoing some aspects of the lives of Zora Neale Hurston and Nella Larsen, blossoms in amazing and painful fashion just as the cultural movement we know as the Harlem Renaissance comes into bloom.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a period in which black artists explored their culture and showed pride in their race.
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The artistic and cultural movement known as the Harlem Renaissance attracted African Americans who sought to develop their intellectual and artistic expressions.
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It explores the cultural flowering known as the Harlem Renaissance, including the story of "the greatest basketball team you never heard of," the Harlem Rens.
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And politically and historically, the Harlem Renaissance is a fascinating time.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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In New York Hurston became part the New Negro movement -- later referred to as the Harlem Renaissance -- attending parties with other notable African American writers such as Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, and Arna Bontemps.
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In New York Hurston became part the New Negro movement -- later referred to as the Harlem Renaissance -- attending parties with other notable African American writers such as Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, and Arna Bontemps.
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The Harlem Renaissance was a conglomeration of visions of many individuals which created a new identity for African Americans outside of the ideals of White society.
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It was also the time of the 'Harlem Renaissance' and the 'New Negro,' when more books were published by blacks than ever before and more whites wrote about blacks than have ever done since.
In Sorrow's Kitchen Pinckney, Darryl 1978
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What came to be called the Harlem Renaissance was an era, more than a place, for the synergy of revolutionaries (Marcus Garvey), authors (Zora Neal Hurston), actors (Paul Robeson) and philosophers (W.E.B.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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