Bp # 3 jicanzeng

After the American civil war, the African- Americans searched for a safe place where they lived in. Originally called the New Negro Movement, the Harlem Renaissance was happened during the 1920s and 1930s. their intelligence were expressions of writing, music, and art.http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmharlem1.html

      

Harlem is vicious Modernism. BangClash.Vicious the way it's made,Can you stand such beauty.So violent and transforming.
- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) 



Harlem ... Harlem 
Black, black Harlem 
Souls of Black Folk 
Ask Du Bois 
Little grey restless feet 
Ask Claude McKay 
City of Refuge
Ask Rudolph Fisher
Don't damn your body's itch
Ask Countee Cullen
Does the jazz band sob?
Ask Langston Hughes
Nigger Heaven
Ask Carl Van Vechten
Hey! ... Hey!
" ... Say it brother
Say it ..."
- Frank Horne, "Harlem"