The Harlem Renaissance: The Negro Movement

The Harlem Renaissance. The uprising for African Americans
Segregation laws kept different races from mixing socially in the 1920s. All African Americans were kept from the art world because of racism, slavery, poverty and segregation. But because of the Harlem Renaissance, blacks were creating many styles of writing, art and music. The tension of different ethnicities made the blacks have their own cities within smaller cities. For over ten years in Harlem, New York and all across the United States, the Harlem Renaissance was a vast uprising of African Americans. The birth of many artists and writers during this time period demanded the freedom of blacks and the ability to express themselves.
The Great Migration
The "New Negro Movement" was a blossom of African Americans coming together to be united. But by the 1920s, over one million blacks moved from the south and into the north. Major cities

They were creating new styles of music and ways of playing. From spirituals, came ragtime, and blues came jazz, and from jazz came swing. Early forms of Black music evolved from the early slave music in the 1800s. It started when whites didn't believe that black could sing or play white music. Negro spirituals were often called sorrow songs because of the fear of living as slaves. Later, a genre called ragtime was introduced in 1895, with Scott Joplin as the most known musician with this style of music. Next, blues was a way to transverse emotion of those longing for a better life. In the Harlem Renaissance era, jazz came into play. Performers often in clubs like Connies Club, and Smalls Paradise were the entertainment for the whites. They would use brass and woodwind instruments to create rhythmic dance music. Now, in the 21st century, we have expanded our range of music and have modern day hip-hop. African Americans created so many forms of music that we still hear now, and a message to never