Ochs, Michael. Publicity photo promoting "Just a Minute" at Harlem's Cotton
Club. 1929. Getty Images
Bettmann, Otto. Man playing trumpet and crowd. Getty Images
Nelson, Steven Lee. Four dancers in costume at the Cotton Club. Culture Map Dallas
The Harlem Renaissance was a period of social, artistic and intellectual prosperity, centered in Harlem. It was called the New Negro Movement, after Locke's book, The New Negro. The movement eventually spread to have national influence; Harlem standing as the symbolic capital.
Ochs, Michael. Publicity photo promoting "Just a Minute" at Harlem's Cotton
Club. 1929. Getty Images
Bettmann, Otto. Man playing trumpet and crowd. Getty Images
Nelson, Steven Lee. Four dancers in costume at the Cotton Club. Culture Map Dallas
Historical Context
Alain Locke