Question

How did the Harlem Renaissance (1920-1939) make way for the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. King’s speech (1963)?

Answer 1

The Harlem Rennaisance helped foster a new black identity. The Harlem Renaissance brought the African American experience clearly within American cultural history. Not only through an explosion of culture, but on a sociological level, the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance is that it redefined how America, and the world, viewed the African-American population

The progress during this period became a point of reference from which the African-American community gained a spirit of self-determination that provided a growing sense of both Black urbanity and Black militancy as well as a foundation for the community to build upon for the Civil Rights struggles in the 1950s and 1960s.