This movement, including the further growth between 1920 and 1930, is referred to as the "Great Migration."Blacks left the South in astonishing numbers for many reasons: depression in the agricultural southern economy; the World War I industrial boom in the North; growing oppression in the South. ... They were also pushed out of the South by a severe depression that took place between 1914 and 1915, forcing black farmers to lose their lands and their jobs. ... Harlem is indeed the great Mecca for the sight-seer, the pleasure-seeker, the curious, the adventurous, the enterprising, the ambitio...

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The great depression of the 1930s increased the economic pressure on all sectors of life. ... a riot in Harlem in 1935 "set off in part by the growing economic hardship of the Depression and mounting tension between the black community and the white shop-owners in Harlem who profited from that community "shattered the notion of Harlem as the "Mecca- of the New Negro. ... Almost one-third of the books published during the Renaissance appeared after 1929. ... The use of nature for this purpose draws characters/speakers to life and adds great depth to his works. ...

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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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