The Renaissance took place between the end of World War 1 and the Great Depression. ... Between 1920 and 1930, almost 750,000 African Americans left the South, and many of them migrated to urban areas in the North to take advantage of the prosperity and the more racially tolerant environment. ... The Great Depresion increased the economic pressure on all sections of life. Organizations which had promoted the Harlem Renaissance, shifted their interests to economic and social issues of the 1930's. ...

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Langston Hughes published his first collection of verse, The Weary Blues, in 1926, and his novel Not Without Laughter appeared in 1930. ... The Great Depression caused the Harlem group of writers and entertainers to scatter; many were forced to leave New York or to take other jobs to tide them over the hard times....

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