... a vital part of American culture (Horton, 2002). The end of the Harlem Renaissance As is often the case with expiring movements, the beginnings of the end of the Harlem Renaissance were either mistaken for more success or only belatedly recognized for what they truly were. Almost one-third of the books published during the Renaissance appeared after 1929. The Great Depression of the 1930s increased the economic pressure on all sectors of life ... . Organizations such as the NAACP and the Urban League, which had actively promoted the New Negro in the 1920s, shifted their interests to econ...

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