Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was a time after WW1 to the mid-1930s where black artists and musicians thrived. Some artists produced things like the paintings below. The Harlem Renaissance was partly caused by the Great Migration. The Great Migration was where many African Americans moved to cities up north to get away from Jim Crow Laws (laws that limited the rights of African Americans) and hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan. The whites up north, however, did not like the flood of African Americans that suddenly showed up. Prejudice was everywhere and African Americans lived in slum neighborhoods like Harlem, the biggest of the slums and the most culturally active. The Harlem Renaissance affected blacks and whites alike and influenced generations to come.