About the Elements and Artists of the Harlem Renaissance

The most important element of the Harlem Renaissance was to bring attention and recognition to the city of Harlem and the African Americans who inhabited it in a time where they were fighting for Civil Rights. Another element was to show the rest of the nation the suffering that African Americans had gone through to get where they were that day. For the artists, this period gave the minorities a way to establish their own culture and to show the rest of the world their way of life. They analyzed the past and present struggles of African Americans and tried to portray that in their art.