The Rise the African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance
The main purpose of this exhibit is to show how the Harlem Renaissance played a very crucial part in the development of equality between blacks and whites in the 1920s-1930s. The blacks were over with the idea of not being able to move on in life. What they decided to do was to be creative in their writings, songs, arts, and lifestyle. This encouraged other blacks to join in this movement. The black’s begin to open up their own clubs such as the Cotton Club. The Cotton Club was a night club that actually accepted in some whites. By allowing the whites into the Cotton Club, the blacks were able to express how other whites and basically most of America unfairly treated them.
This source demonstrated the major ideas of my exhibit, because it has whites and blacks in the same room together peacefully. This is to show that the Harlem Renaissance was a huge advantage for the blacks to get their civil rights. Again, the Harlem Renaissance was one the key times for civil rights movements. Before the Harlem Renaissance it was really rare, if not at all to see the whites in the same room with the blacks peacefully. In this source, we see the whites in a black club. As we can see this picture was taken in 1937 World Series at the Cotton Club. The photographer is unknown.