a short summary of harlem renaissance?

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The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African-American social thought and culture based in the African-American community forming in Harlem in New York City. This period, extending from roughly 1920 to 1940, was expressed through every cultural medium—visual art, dance, music, theatre, literature, poetry, history and politics. Instead of using direct political means, African-American artists, writers, and musicians employed culture to work for goals of civil rights and equality. Its lasting legacy is that for the first time (and across racial lines), African-American paintings, writings, and jazz became absorbed into mainstream culture. At the time, it was known as the "New N e g r o Movement", named after an anthology, entitled The New N e g r o, of notable African-American works, published by philosopher Alain Locke in 1925.