Harlem Renaissance (sep 1, 1918 – sep 1, 1935)
Description:
New York- popularity of urban African-American culture; the ‘jazz age`
- white patronage
“It was the period in which the Negro was in vogue.” (Langston Hughes)
- surge of creativity in literature, art, music, and intellectual thought
- different kind of segregation: living in ghettos
Harlem
BY LANGSTON HUGHES
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
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Date:
sep 1, 1918
sep 1, 1935
~ 17 years