Cultural Movements of the Early 20th Century

The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural, social, and artistic revival of Black culture that took place in Harlem, New York, during the 1920s and 1930s.

Jazz is a musical genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and a strong rhythmic drive.

The Great Migration was the movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the cities of the North, Midwest, and West from about 1916 to 1970.

Langston Hughes was a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, known for his poetry, novels, plays, essays, and his insightful portrayals of Black life in America.

The flapper was a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts (just below the knee was considered short then!), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.

Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933.

Speakeasies were illegal establishments that sold alcoholic beverages during the Prohibition era in the United States.

The Lost Generation refers to a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations in the 1920s. The term also refers to the generation that came of age during the war.

Surrealism a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writing. Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur.

The Dada movement was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. Often nonsensical, Dada's aim was to subvert and ridicule the status quo.