While the Harlem Renaissance was effectively put to an end by the stock market crash of 1929 that started the Great Depression, the people, the thoughts, and the works of art that flourished ...

In the famous New York neighborhood, a center of African American culture and home of the cultural flowering known as the Harlem Renaissance, 100,000 people poured out onto the streets.

Why do you think Chesnutt isn’t as well remembered today as the Harlem Renaissance writers he influenced? The Harlem Renaissance really did take over, and Chesnutt didn’t fit in with those ...