The Harlem Renaissance was an African-American movement that took place from the late 1920s to the 1930s. It became known as the Harlem Renaissance just because it began in the Harlem neighborhood of the United States. This movement has also been known by other names, such as: Black Renaissance, New Black Movement, and New Black Renaissance. It was during this period that directors, editors, and critics realized that the expressions of art of the African-American people were beginning to expressively draw attention to the nation, something that was stronger in literature, but 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 twentieth century African American community. Something that happened shortly after the North American Civil War that ended up generating a black middle class, something that greatly favored the emergence of jobs and better education for the descendant Africans.