Black History Month: Scenes From The Harlem Renaissance
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MadameNoire
Most of the artists who fueled the Renaissance weren’t from New York at all – they were migrants from the South. So it’s not surprising that a cultural movement was fueled by the 1.5 million Southern blacks who moved to big cities in search of bigger and better opportunities between 1919 and 1926. Besides New York, during the 1910s and 1920s, Chicago’s black population grew by 148 percent; Cleveland’s by 307 percent; Detroit’s by 611 percent.
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