<Tab/>Starting in the 1920s, over one million African-Americans moved out of the oppressive southern states which they had always known and flooded into the northern states. The majority of them settled down in the city of Harlem, New York. These black migrants were searching and hoping to gain the social status and privileges which had been denied to them all across the south. From this group of blacks, a generation …showed first 75 words of 1478 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1478 total…lt;Tab/>The writers from the Harlem Renaissance not only made an impact in the 1920s, but are an inspiration to today's writers. The Renaissance was an eye-openers to many northern white Americans to way blacks were treated and were forced to live in the south. Today, there is little evidence of blacks oppression anywhere in the country. It is nice to know that the Harlem Renaissance played a part in this change.