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How The Harlem Renaissance Writer Zora Neale Hurston Influenced America U.S women’s History Topic: How the Harlem Renaissance Writer Zora Neale Hurston influenced America Harlem, the “Mecca” of the urban north. A place where blacks could mingle with whites and not worry about the “Jim Crow” laws of the south. Harlem in the 1920’s was a hustling and bustling metropolis of the humanities. You had good music, art, and literature. You had blacks making advances in politics, and other social aspects of life. This caused blacks to make a mad exodus from the south to the urban centers of Chicago, New York, Cleveland, Detroit, and other major northern cities. Blacks were weary of the agrarian south and its oppressive political structure and wanted the freedom allowed to their northern neighbors. With factory jobs abundant, a black man in the north had a much better standard of living than his counterpart in Alabama. However, just because we partied together did not mean that blacks and whites were equal. Blacks still suffered staunch racism, but just in a different climate. Blacks were allowed to make headway in the arts, however most of those that were making it did so as “sambo”, or as a renaissance, black, hurston, blacks, harlem, about, works, made, zora, time, social, new, neale, life, work, south, political, later, because, america, writing, writers, women, whites, school, own, one, moved, just, future, became, writings, writer, white, urban