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How Did African Americans Live During The Harlem Renaissance?

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Alternatively, African Americans struggling to get their message across has been prevalent for many centuries. Moving back multiple decades from the Civil Rights movement, we have the Harlem Renaissance which brought great changes to the declining economy. The environment it created allowed for African American culture to flourish. Many African Americans began their writing career and gained their recognition during this time. The Harlem Renaissance happened through the 1920’s and 1930’s. Many art forms were born in the Harlem Renaissance; things such as dance, blues and jazz, musical theater, and poetry. Many citizens began to recognize their work and thus the African Americans found their own way to make a stand. Harlem became a capital for African American communities in the United States, and during the Harlem Renaissance, art and literature happened as if it was an explosion of creativity. Many great writers came about during this time, one of which was Langston Hughes:
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History has an ironic way of repeating itself at times, the phrase “separate but equal” has rang through the ears of black culture millions of times, only for it to resonate itself within same-sex couples again. The debate of Civil Unions vs. Marriage was on the minds of many before 2015, when the Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriage legal nationwide. These Civil Unions that had existed only until recently was just the rationale used over a century ago for the same purposes. Both had the intention of having equality, but through corruption and misunderstanding, it was never fully achieved. Thankfully, just as the African Americans protested for their rights, the LGBT community also followed suit and won their rights, but not after a long

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