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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”