"In the last decade something beyond the watch and guard of statistics has happened in the life of the American Negro and the three norns who have traditionally presided over the Negro problem have a changeling in their laps. The Sociologist, the Philanthropist, the Race-leader are not unaware of the New Negro, but they are at a loss to account for him... With this renewed self-respect and self-dependence, the life of the Negro community is bound to enter a new dynamic phase." — Alain Locke, "The New Negro" (1925)
The Harlem Renaissance was made possible in significant part by
- Acheck_circle
the Great Migration of African Americans to northern cities during and after WWI
- B
the Compromise of 1877
- C
the Dawes Severalty Act
- D
federal anti-lynching legislation
Explanation
Roughly 1.5 million Black Americans moved north between 1910 and 1930, concentrating in cities like New York, Chicago, and Detroit and creating the cultural mass for the Renaissance.