Originally called "New Negro Movement", the Harlem Renaissance was the flowering of the social and intellectual African American culture. The movement began in the early 1920's and 30's and had a starting point in Harlem, New York.
Harlem became the destination for many African American migrants in the early 1900's. The district was originally built for the white middle class but as soon as blacks started moving into a block, property values dropped as whites began to leave. This process was especially evident in the early 1920s. Both black and white realtors took advantage of the panic selling that resulted when blacks moved in. The educated African Americans who settled in Harlem made the area a center for culture and uplifted the social class for African Americans.
The Harlem Renaissance had a great impact on the rebirth of African American literature and art, and many great artists such as Louis Armstrong and Langston Hughes defended their freedom as artists and intellectuals, and expressed themselves on their own terms, while praising the African-American culture that originated from their roots in Africa, before slavery.
The Harlem Renaissance had no single defined ideological or stylistic standard that unified its participants and defined the movement. Instead, most participants in the movement resisted black or white efforts to define or narrowly categorize their art.
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