The Harlem Renaissance was a major flowering of African American art and writing centered in Harlem, New York, during the 1920s and early 1930s. In poetry, it brought attention to Black life, history, music, pride, and cultural expression, and it produced some of the most influential voices in American literature, including Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay.
Example
Night drums pulse through Harlem streets,
Our voices rise on steady feet;
We sing the names that history hid,
And claim the light our lives have bid.