The Renaissance took place between the end of World War 1 and the Great Depression. ... The Great Depresion increased the economic pressure on all sections of life. ... Almost one-third of the books published during the Renaissance were still read, sold, and bought after 1929. ...

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Variously known as the New Negro movement, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Negro Renaissance; the movement emerged toward the end of World War I in 1918, blossomed in the mid- to late 1920s, and then faded in the mid-1930s with the beginning of the Great Depression. ... During the Great Migration, hundreds of thousands of black Americans moved from an economically depressed rural South to industrial cities of the North to take advantage of employment opportunities created by World War I. ...

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