NEXT UP! 2 128 The Harlem Renaissance was a 20th century cultural movement in the USA. It represented a new black cultural identity in the 1920s and 30s, and it gave people with an African American background a chance to express themselves freely. Magazines and newspapers that had African American owners flourished, which in turn gave African American writers a chance to develop a literary career not influenced by mainstream white society. Langston Hughes became one of the major figures in this exciting cultural movement. St. Louis Cotton Club Band, circa 1925 Young girls dancing the Charleston in Harlem in the 1920s.
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