why was harlem renaissance important
1 4 Famous Women Of the Harlem Renaissance Around the 1920s in Harlem, New York, a new movement which celebrated African American art and culture was thriving. 2  The New Negro Movement, as it was called at the time, gâ¦. La Negritude: The Negritude Movement The Negritude movement was a literary, political, and cultural movement among educated French black people in the 1930s. 2  It drew heavily on the Harlem Renaissance, but was foâ¦. 3  The History of Fort Lee Virginia Fort Lee in Virginia goes a long way back in American history.