Harlem Renaissance had a big impact on Pride in African culture. The Harlem Renaissance changed the world with its unique features. The music changed as the people did to. Also, African food, dances, and other African cultural practices got popular. Pride in African culture was spread all over the world when Harlem Renaissance came into New York City. In fact, most blacks weren't proud of their color until Harlem Renaissance was brought into town.
The Negro Speaks of Rivers was a poem creates by Langston
Hughes to show emotions about the time period. It appeared in NAACP
magazine in June 1921, The Crisis. The poem basically says he known pain and that his soul has got stronger because of it. Since that time period African Americans has
had this song repeatedly set at the top of the chart. Also, Chicago composer
Margaret Bonds,and the Handy Brothers Music Company published it 1942. W.C. Handy,
who ran the company, used the money made by “The St. Louis Blues” Handy
blues songs to finance publication of classical music made by a early generation of
African American.