History of the Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance was a time when culture, social interaction, intelligence, and Creativity began with a huge bang thanks to African American authors, artists, musicians, photographers, poets and scholars states History Channel. The Harlem Renaissance began in 1917 and extended until the mid-1930s, but during this time there were famous writers such as Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay and many others who made this period a unforgettable. in history says the Poetry Foundation. In the Harlem Renaissance it was more than just a cultural, social and poetic movement: what African Americans really were who fought for their civil and political rights, but what they fought for was equality, justice and wanting the reign of suffering. to end and bring the day when freedom will ring. Even though the Renaissance movement hasn't brought everyone's attention to the issue of Jim's injustice, even though the speaker doesn't let this get to him, he actually laughs and says "Tomorrow I'll be at the table," meaning a day where he will sit. at the table and be equal even after saying that she says “They will see how beautiful I am” showing her that she will have her own identity in the white community. Another poem relevant to the theme written by Hughes is the poem "What happens to a dream deferred?" in this poem the speaker wonders what happens if dreams are postponed. The speaker offers answers to the question such as “whether they rot like sores” or “they rot like flesh” but, in the end, he asks whether they explode, which is the answer to his question, meaning that dreams can come true as the speaker probably dreams of having your own dream and