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African past and to utilize this in their art.
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Writers would write to express there feelings, and how things where going and how they felt.
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Eugene O'Neill's plays "The Emperor Jones" (1920)
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takes a new pride in a racial identity and heritage, of the "renewed self-respect and self-dependence" felt in the contemporary black community, which is "about to enter a new phase."
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African Americans from the rural South, became the major center for urbanized blacks. The renaissance was associated with the New Negro Movement
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Harlem Globetrotters was first established
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Harlem by Wallace Thurman opens on Broadway becoming the most successful production of the time by a black author.
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Consumer debt more than doubled by 1930
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movement that began in Harlem, New York after World War I and ended around 1935 during the Great Depression.