Monday, May 5, 2008

The period's representation to the artists

Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance represented the birth of a new beginning of freedom and identity for the black artists. Following the Great Migration, blacks began to form black communities and the level of confidence in themselves, their culture, and the literacy rate rose. The majority of the movement took place near Harlem. The writers wrote about their roots and the current society, the musicians played their new style of music: blues and jazz, and the artists expressed their culture's thoughts and feelings in their work.


Civil Rights

The Civil Rights was a movement for intense equality between the different races in society and the struggle for the voices of blacks and the minority to be heard. For the artists, their work reflected on the everyday struggle of segregation, racial violence, and civil disobedience. For the people, their day included protesting for what they believed while trying to stay out of harm's way. Writers, like Lorraine Hansberry, wrote about a typical black family's struggle through society. All who truly believed sought change during this period of division.

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