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by Deobra The Harlem Renaissance influenced African Americans to be proud of their race and to show how proud they were through music, theater, art, and literature. During the 1920’s African American artists moved to Harlem, New York. The renaissance was the time of great achievements in art and learning. The jazz age, which started about the same time as Harlem Renaissance inspired many African American artists such as Langston Hughes. There were other arts though such as drama and music. Some people that came into the Harlem Renaissance were Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Jacob Lawrence, and James Weldon Johnson. Langston Hughes wrote poems, books, and plays about the lives of African American people. Zora Neale Hurston wrote about the experiences of African American women. She wrote a novel called Their Eyes Were Watching God. Jacob Lawrence was a painter who created several series or different groups of paintings that showed African American life and history. |
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