... by many artists. Several factors laid the foundation for the Harlem Renaissance movement. A black middle class had developed following the American Civil War (1861-1865), increasing education and employment opportunities with a new sense of racial pride (Collier, 1985). During the Great Migration, hundreds of thousands of black Americans moved from an economically depressed rural South to industrial cities of the North to take advantage of employment opportunities ... arts. Musicians were creating and refining jazz, a mixture of ragtime, blues and African folk songs. The Jazz Age dawned...

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