Section 4: The Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance is a literary and artistic movement celebrating AfricanAmerican culture. This movement was lead by middle-class, well-educated African Americans. These writers wrote about life of African American being surrounded by the whites. Claude McKay is novelist and a poet who is known for his novel “Home to Harlem�. His poem described the harsh life of an African American living in a ghetto and the pressure of living in the world among whites.