Harlem Literature

Why was the Harlem Renaissance also called the New Negro Movement?

Alain Locke played an important in helping to shape this “New Negro Movement” by editing “The New Negro” a collaboration of essays, stories, poems, and artwork by younger as well as older writers, white and black.This book helped to define the movement by merging racial awareness with a desire for literary and artistic excellence. Also the "Great Migration" of Southern Blacks to the North escaping the racial injustices of the South. This period is a discovery of African Americans and the talent they possess to the world that considered us beasts and savages that are not capable of intelligent thoughts and artistic talent.