The place was New York City. The time was the 1920s, the Jazz Age. Nowhere did the music seem as loud or play as sweet as it did in the Manhattan neighborhood of Harlem. There, a flowering of African American culture created a community bursting with artistry, political energy, and racial pride. This was a time when a large amounts of artists, writers, musicians, thinkers, historians, Blacks that were deeply involved in the arts and …showed first 75 words of 636 total…

…showed last 75 words of 636 total…and grabbing her, once her husband arrived, he attempted to help, and a riot started. This is only one of the many incidents of this kind that occurred. Called then the New Negro Movement, the Harlem Renaissance was a self conscious awakening from the darkness of slavery vanquished only a few generations past. Set between the end of the Great War and the Great Depression, the Renaissance was brief, but it made a joyous noise.