This Renaissance was an African-American movement that took place in the late 1920s and 1930s, it became known as the Harlem Renaissance precisely because it started in the neighborhood of Harlem in the United States. It was in this period that directors, editors and critics realized that the expressions of art of the African American people were beginning to draw the nation's attention in an expressive way, something that was stronger in literature, however, in other art forms there were also great exponents African-American.
The Harlem Renaissance began to emerge in the midst of an intellectual and social upheaval that eventually emerged and spread throughout the 20th century African American community. Something that happened right after the North American Civil War that ended up generating a black middle class, something that favored the emergence of jobs and better education conditions for Afro descendants.
Jackie Mabley "Moms Mabley" adopted her theatrical name, Jackie Mabley, from that of an old friend. Later on she was known as "Moms" because she was truly a "Mom" for many other comedians from the 1950s and 1960s. At the age of 27, she declared herself a lesbian, and was one of the first artists on the comedy circuit to be qualified as triple-X
