Harlem Renaissance

1. Langston Hughes, poet and novelist, he made an impact in the Harlem Renaissance.

2. It made lots of changes specialy in african americans. Since there was a lot of slavery and discrimination in the north part of America. The Worl War1 began and made a big social and cultural changes in the USA.  The industrialization was attracting people to cities from rural areas and gave rise to a new mass culture. There were also a great amount of people who lost their Jobs and became homeless, so they began to go to California because they had dreams and a better feauture and health there. The Great Depression began and a  lot of natural disasters started to affect the people. The Harlem Renaissance were the Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities, which concentrated ambitious people in places where they could encourage each other, and the First World War, which had created new industrial work opportunities for tens of thousands of people.Langston Hughes contributed a tremendous influence on black culture throughout, he considered to be one of the  most-recognized black poets of the Harlem Renaissance. He broke through barriers that very few black artists had in that period of time and so he helped to make a change.  At that time poetry and literature were dominated by white people until the 1920´s there was an revolution of black literatura that changed the world. And he was one of the most famous poets who helped to make a change and show their talent not the skin color.

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