The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement, a period of musical, literary, and cultural proliferation that began in New York’s African-American community during the 1920s and early 1930s. At the time, it was known as the
"New Negro Movement", named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke, a Black American writer, philosopher and educator, who is regarded as the "Father of the Harlem Renaissance".
Additional writing luminaries of the Harlem Renaissance include
Langston Hughes,
Countee Cullen, Claude McKay & Zora Neale Hurston amongst others.
View Langston Hughes’s article “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”