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"The literature, music, and fashion they created defined culture and “cool” for blacks and white alike, in America and around the world."

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the new identity of Black people in America during the Harlem Renaissance

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Black people in America were able to funnel their experiences into art and share their stories through their art and literature

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Harlem became a center for most American culture, regardless of race

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Changed the view white people had of Black people in America and provided support for them to jump off for the Civil Rights movement

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A lot of American culture, from both modern times and the 1920's originated from the Black culture in the Harlem Renaissance

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"What united these diverse art forms was their realistic presentation of what it meant to be black in America, what writer Langston Hughes called an “expression of our individual dark-skinned selves,” as well as a new militancy in asserting their civil and political rights."

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Before this they weren't able to publically display and perform their art, especially not about their identity and past. Now they had the ability to and they used that platform incredibly effectively

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"the Harlem Renaissance’s impact on America was indelible. The movement brought notice to the great works of African American art, and inspired and influenced future generations of African American artists and intellectuals. The self-portrait of African American life, identity, and culture that emerged from Harlem was transmitted to the world at large, challenging the racist and disparaging stereotypes of the Jim Crow South. In doing so, it radically redefined how people of other races viewed African Americans and understood the African American experience."

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White people in America started to see the incredible things Black people were creating and began to take some of their culture and bring it into the 'mainstream' culture of the time, aka. predominantly white spaces that were segregated before.

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A New African American Identity: The Harlem Renaissance

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/new-african-american-identity-harlem-renaissance

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National Museum of African American History and Culture

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A New African American Identity: The Harlem Renaissance

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Between the end of World War I and the mid-1930s, African Americans produced one of the most significant eras of cultural expression in the nation’s history—the Harlem Renaissance.

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They had no impact on America as the South remained unchanged.