The Harlem Renaissance was an African American cultural movement of the late 1920s and early 1930s that was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. ... As more and more educated and socially conscious blacks settled in New York's neighborhood of Harlem, it developed into the political and cultural center of black America. "In the history of New York, the significance of the name Harlem has changed from Dutch to Irish to Jewish to Negro (Johnson, 1925)."" ... Driven by the charismatic zeal of Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican who had migrated to New York, captured the grass-roots ...

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In general, Harlem / New York, was the focal point of the Renaissance - everyone associated something on his own with Harlem. Most writers spent at least some time in Harlem, others like Langston Hughes or Claude McKay, described the New York ghetto life in their short stories; it simply provided a various number of setting for their stories. Nigger Heaven, published in 1926, for example was an attraction to whites as well to black people in America, who wanted to know something about life in the ghetto. ...

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