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A large city in Manhattan, known as a residential, cultural, and business center for African Americans.

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Part of why the Harlem Renaissance is so important in history is that it set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement.

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For so long prior to the Harlem Renaissance, women had been fighting for equal rights. However, white women still ostracized Black women. Bessie Smith was able to break through these barriers as a woman and as a person of color to show her talent and inherent worth as a human being.

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Langston Hughes' poem Harlem which helps us understand how we need dreams for survival.

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Another Langston Hughes poem. I, Too, Sing America demonstrates the relationship between Black and white Americans.

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Written by Claude McKay, America shows how Black people tried to reconcile the love for their country while also being treated so terribly by it.

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A main piece of the Harlem Renaissance was the duality many faced. Many African Americans had never even been to Africa. The U.S. was their home. A home they loved. However, the U.S. was also a country that prided itself on freedom while not being free for these Black citizens.

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I see skies of blue and clouds of white

The bright blessed days, the dark sacred nights

And I think to myself

What a wonderful world

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In, If We Must Die, McKay raises a call to arms, encouraging Black people to die nobly and be brave.

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Langston Hughes, a famous poet from the Harlem Renaissance.

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Zora Neale Hurston was an anthropologist and writer during this era. Her most famous work was a novel called Their Eyes Were Watching God.

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W.E.B. Du Bois was a writer, activist, and philosopher during the Harlem Renaissance. His life centered around creating an equal and just society for everyone.

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This is a term coined by W.E.B Du Bois. It refers to what it was like for Black people to live in a white world. He described it as a twoness or as a sense of looking at yourself through someone else's eyes.

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Du Bois helped begin the organization of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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Paris, France was a place of hope and validation for Black artists which could not be found in America.

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Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-1965

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Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-1965

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This exhibit was the first to give and in-depth exploration of the lure to post-war Paris for African American artists.

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Gee, but it's hard to love someone when that someone don't love you!
I'm so disgusted, heart-broken, too; I've got those down-hearted blues

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An art exhibition featuring Black artists.

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Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-1965,

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Edward Clark, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Harold Cousins, Beauford Delaney, Herbert Gentry, Lois Mailou Jones, and Larry Potter were all featured in ''Explorations in the City of Light: African-American Artists in Paris, 1945-1965."

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The great migration of African Americans to cities like New York City, Chicago, and Washington D.C. was a contributing factor to the rise of the Harlem Renaissance.

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The Duke Ellington Orchestra was the house orchestra for the Cotton Club for years.

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The Cotton Club was a revue featuring glamorous dancers, tap dancers, comics, and vaudeville performers. Black and white people alike came to Harlem to see the show.

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Jacob Lawrence, a painter from the Harlem Renaissance.

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Jacob Lawrence painted a series of 60 paintings to depict the migration of African Americans to northern cities.

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Bessie Smith was popular with both black and white listeners. She was a famous jazz and blues singer.

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Duke Ellington was a jazz composer, conductor, and performer of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong recorded together.

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The Harlem Renaissance was a golden age for African Americans. It gave artists, writers, and musicians pride and control over the expression of the black experience.

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The stock market crash and Great Depression began the end of the Harlem Renaissance. The end of the Prohibition and people moving to new places in search of work caused the creative boom to waver.

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The Harlem Race Riot in 1935 broke out. It killed three people, injured hundreds, and caused property damage worth millions of dollars. It was the end of the Harlem Renaissance.