The migration pattern shown most directly contributed to which 1920s cultural phenomenon?
- A
The collapse of jazz music in the United States.
- B
The expansion of sharecropping into northern states.
- Ccheck_circle
The Harlem Renaissance, an African American flowering of literature, music, and art in northern cities.
- D
The rise of southern agrarian poetry as the dominant national style.
Explanation
Roughly 1.6 million Black southerners moved north from 1910-1930 seeking jobs and freedom from Jim Crow. Concentrations in Harlem and other northern neighborhoods produced writers (Hughes, Hurston), musicians (Ellington, Armstrong), and political movements (Garvey).