The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, was a movement of the 1920s and '30s that sought to redefine ...

The "New Negro" writers celebrated American idealism while pointing out the inequalities that were affronts to those same ideals. The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift.

I thought about New York. I thought about the time period, and that got me to the Harlem Renaissance ... reading one of his early poems, "The Negro Speaks Of Rivers." (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

In 1925, scholar Alain Locke described the Harlem Renaissance by saying “Negro ... According to some scholars, “The New Negro,” written in 1925, was the first literary attempt to uplift ...

The "New Negro" writers celebrated American idealism while pointing out the inequalities that were affronts to those same ideals. The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift.