When it comes to my timeline and what specific event I chose to focus on, I chose to do the Harlem Renaissance. This was an especially crucial time for African Americans and Zora Neale Hurston played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance. To begin Harlem was a northern neighborhood in Manhattan and it was meant to be an upper- class white neighborhood during the 1880s. But with the rapid over development, it led to a ton of empty buildings and desperate landlords trying to find anyone. During the 1900s a few middle classed Black families moved from a neighborhood known as Black Bohemia to Harlem, and once these few Black families moved more followed and moved to Harlem themselves. When the African Americans did move to Harlem many of the white residents began to fight to keep the African Americans out of the neighborhood, but eventually the white residents just gave up and left the neighborhood entirely.

When it comes to the Harlem renaissance it began because there was a large boom within the African American community during 1910 to 1920. When it comes to why the Harlem Renaissance began, it is a little surprising, the boom that happened within the African American community led most individuals to migrate North from the south and this migration was known as the Great Migration. Another issue most African Americans were facing is the loss of jobs due to natural disasters happening in the south and these natural disasters were putting Black individuals out of jobs. The importance in the Harlem Renaissance though is the fact that it was the golden ages for African American artists, writers, and musicians. It gave these artists a sense of pride and dignity and control over how the Black experience was represented throughout American culture and this also set the stage for the civil rights movement.

when it comes to Zora Neale Hurston and her impact on the Harlem Renaissance, she had one of her stories published in FIRE!! (Which was an African American literary magazine that had gotten published in New York City. This magazine showed the exotic lives of Harlem residents.

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