Harlem Renaissance

Millions of Black Americans migrated from rural southern states to Industrial cites in the north, a movement known as The Great Migration and by 1920, Harlem had become the cultural capital of Black America. Writers, musicians, and artists such as Nora Neal Hurston, Duke Elligton, James Van Der Zee, Augusta Savage, Alain Locke, Aaron Douglas, W.E.B. DuBois, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes lived and worked in Harlem in between the wars.