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The Harlem Renaissance grew out of the changes that had taken place in the African-American community since the abolition of slavery, as the expansion of communities in the North. These accelerated as a consequence of World War I and the great social and cultural changes in early 20th-century United States.

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As the Great Migration of African Americans made its way north, New York City’s Harlem neighborhood became a vibrant hotspot for musicians, writers, entertainers and thinkers. The collection of talent, all within a few city blocks, became known as the Harlem Renaissance. Lasting between the 1910s and the mid-1930s.

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Langston Hughes

Two of the earliest breakthroughs were in poetry, with Claude McKay's collection Harlem Shadows in 1922 and Jean Toomer's Cane in 1923

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Most importantly, the Harlem Renaissance inspire in African Americans across the country a new spirit of self-determination and pride, a new social awareness and a new commitment to political activism, all of which would provide a foundation for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

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A explosive mix of the serious, the aesthetic, the political, and the Harlem Renaissance was a cultural awakening among African Americans around the 1920s and 1930s. Through literature, music, theatre, and the visual arts, as they announced themselves, support the opportunities and challenges of the modern era. Although scholars continue to debate what it should be called, how long it lasted, and where it unfolded, the awakening left a lasting impression on the cultures of the United States, Europe, and Africa. What follows are some of its defining moments.

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In the 1850s, Chinese workers migrated to the United States, first to work in the gold mines, but also to take agricultural jobs, and factory work, especially in the garment industry.

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It is hard for us to imagine today the excitement generated when technological marvels of modern science like radio and television were first demonstrated to the general public. These were new and exciting times. Whole new industries and employment opportunities opened up to manufacture goods for the rapidly expanding retail market fueled by easy consumer credit in the form of installment payment plans.

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Many of the household items that we take for granted today were either invented or developed into viable commercial products in the 1920's. Labor saving, entertainment and comfort enhancing items like electric irons, toasters, refrigerators, air-conditioners, radio, television and vacuum cleaners, were just a few.

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In 1927 President Coolidge signed into existence the new Radio Control Bill, as the radio had run wild, with new broadcasting stations springing up like mushrooms and filling the ether with so many conflicting and overlapping vibrations that the result to the listener was chaos. The new radio bill regulated the airwaves with the formation of a Radio Commission. The commission classified all radio stations, assigned bands of frequencies or wave-lengths to the various classes of stations, determined the location of classes of stations, or of individual stations, made regulations deemed necessary to prevent interference between stations, and made special regulations applicable to stations engaged in chain broadcasting.

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How did scientific discoveries in the 1920s change people's views of the world? Scientific discoveries challenged long-held ideas. The discovery of penicillin lead to development of antibiotics to treat infection. What effect did WWI have on art movements in the 1920s?

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The Chinese Exclusion Act required the few non-laborers who sought entry to the United States (such as diplomatic officers) to obtain certification from the Chinese government that they were qualified to immigrate. But this group found it increasingly difficult to prove their status because the 1882 act defined laborers as "skilled and unskilled...and Chinese employed in mining." Thus very few Chinese could enter the country under the 1882 law.

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The 1920s saw the invention and marketing of a range of new (or improved) products and processes. Magnetic tape, cellophane tape, and foam rubber were developed during the decade. So were the polygraph (lie detector) and the iron lung. Several vitamins were discovered or identified.

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The Harlem Renaissance was a logical and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship took place in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, around the 1920s and 1930s.

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In the 1920s, immigration quotas were placed and

impacted the number of Jewish, Italian, Russian, Greek, Polish and Slavic immigrants that were allowed to immigrate to America.

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new Chinese immigrant laborer's were banned from entering the U.S because they are accused of taking jobs from Americans.

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about 20 million immigrants came to America mostly from South and Central Europe due to gilded age

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This women rights started when Elizabeth Candy Stanton she was a young mother from Upstate New york.  There was at least 300 people, that were mostly women , they went to Seneca Falls convention.Convention to outline a direction for the women's rights movement.

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Women's rights movement, also called women's liberation movement, diverse social movement, largely based in the United States, that in the 1960s and '70s sought equal rights and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women.

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Their broad goals included equal access to education and employment, equality within marriage, and a married woman's right to her own property and wages, custody over her children and control over her own body.