Documentary. Originally released as a documentary in 2023. Wide screen. Commentators, Farrah Griffin, Isabel Wilkerson, Brent Hayes Edwards ; featuring archival footage of Langston Hughes, Augusta Savage, Oscar Micheaux, Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker.
Summary:
The Harlem Renaissance was the development of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City as a Black cultural mecca in the early 20th Century and the subsequent social and artistic explosion that resulted. Lasting roughly from the 1910s through the mid-1930s, the period is considered a golden age in African American culture, manifesting in literature, music, stage performance, and art. The Harlem Renaissance gave African Americans a chance to live their dreams.
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