The Harlem Renaissance was a time in the 1920s, when black people began to be proud of being black, and expressed that in music, art and literature. Millions of blacks left the south because of racial violence and economical discrimination. They began to build communities in the big cities, where they found a new identity of building an own black culture with the slogan “Black is beautiful”. This new identity affected their whole life, black people did not try anymore to copy whites, they had their own way of thinking, living and talking. Blacks did not let whites treat them like they wanted; they began to stand up for their rights and they fought for equality.
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, one of the greatest composers of the 2
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