The 5 W's of the Harlem Renaissance

	The Harlem Renaissance
Who	African Americans
What	A cultural movement that brought the music, specifically jazz, poetry and writing of forward thinking African American’s to the forefront of American culture and society
Where	The Harlem Renaissance started and centered around the Harlem neighborhood in New York City
Why	The Harlem Renaissance grew out of changes that took place in the African American community after the abolition of slavery and accelerated after the end of WWI where African Americans had fought along side white Americans as equals and had witnessed the equality of Africans in European countries
When	Throughout the 1920s and 1930s