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The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States. It gave the African Americans an opportunity to attend decent schools, make a living, vote, and make music and art. This born free generation of African Americans believed they were entitled to the rights of American citizenship. In the national culture, African Americans were still largely invisible. This was still the time of segregation, humiliation, anti-black riots, and lynching when many Americans saw black people as inferior, alien race.African Americans allies began to influence American culture and politics as never before. The symbol of these better-educated, more militant, and more powerful African Americans was the “New Negro”.

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The Impact Dance Had During the Harlem Renaissance 

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The Impact Dance Had During the Harlem Renaissance 

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Many dances that were popular during the Harlem-Renaissance have origins that are not easy to trace but many seem to have roots to Africa and slavery. During the 1920s and 1930s a whole bunch of new dance styles became popular but four of them got most famous these are: The Shimmy, the Cakewalk, the Charleston and the Lindy Hop. Dancing for African Americas were a time to express themselves in different ways.

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Bessie Smith was an American blues singer. Nicknamed the Empress of the Blues, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s

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Jazz was born out of the Black experience in America, basically fusing African and European musical traditions.
Jazz evolved from slave work songs, spirituals (religious Black American folk songs), blues, brass band music, and ragtime.
Jazz, more than any other music, has been intimately linked with legal and social equality for all, particularly African Americans.

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A reflection off Langston Hughes

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Romare Bearden

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Opened in 1923, the Cotton Club on 142nd St & Lenox Ave in the heart of Harlem, New York was operated by white New York gangster Owney Madden. Madden used the Cotton Club as an outlet to sell his “#1 Beer” to the prohibition crowd. Although the club was briefly closed several times in the 1920s for selling alcohol, the owners’ political connections allowed them to always reopen quickly.
The race riots of Harlem in 1935 forced the Cotton Club to close until late 1936 when it reopened at Broadway and 48th St.

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Dancing brought joy among African Americans. Even though Slavery was abolished, African Americans were still not treated fairly, Dancing had never been assigned to any race, so African American found dancing as a way to send love and joy.

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Romare Bearden

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Artist: Aaron Douglas

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Some famous African Americans of the Harlem Renaissance era. These individuals helped the fight for equality.

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African Americans in the music industry brought everyone closer together.

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African Americans were being treated unfairly, so protests were a way to get people to listen and make a change.

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Hughes is questioning what becomes of a dream that is delayed, tossed aside, or thwarted by external forces.

Though the poem is not explicitly political and deals with desires and aspirations in general, it ties in with Hughes' broader exploration of the African-American dream and the American dream as a whole. Blacks in America had few opportunities to pursue their dreams during the era when Hughes wrote this poem.

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A poet, novelist, fiction writer, and playwright, Langston Hughes is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties and was important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Some art that was done reflecting on the poem.