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What is the Harlem Renaissance?
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The Harlem [|Renaissance] refers to the African-American boom of cultural expression that peaked in the 1920s. Harlem, in New York City, was at the center of what was first called the New Negro Movement and then the Harlem Renaissance. The HarlemRenaissance was a celebration of African-American heritage expressed through an outpouring of art, literature, music and dance. The Harlem Renaissance was helped along by intellectuals and the expansion of urban cultures. Artistic expression and articulated appreciation of African-American culture helped to get white Americans to take notice of the talents of black Americans for the first time. The Harlem Renaissance succeeded in destroying some racist stereotypes through brilliant works in song, dance, paint and print.

//**The Harlem Renaissance**//
The **Harlem Renaissance** was acultrual movement that spanned the 1920s and 1930s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by [|Alain Locke]. Though it was centered in the [|Harlem] neighborhood of New York City, many French-speaking black writers from African and Caribbean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. Historians disagree as to when the Harlem Renaissance began and ended. It is unofficially recognized to have spanned from about 1919 until the early or mid 1930s. Many of its ideas lived on much longer. The zenith of this "flowering of Negro literature", as [|James Weldon Johnson] preferred to call the Harlem Renaissance, was placed between 1924 (the year that //[|Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life]// hosted a party for black writers where many white publishers were in attendance) and 1929 (the year of the [|stock market] crash and the beginning of the [|Great Depression]).