When did the Harlem Renaissance flourish?

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Phillis Wheatley's first book of poetry — African American literature Frontispiece and title page of *Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral* (1773) by Phillis Wheatley, the first Black woman to become a poet of note in the United States. The portrait on which the frontispiece's engraving is based is often attributed to Scipio Moorhead, an Black artist and writer who, like Wheatley, was enslaved and living in Boston.

The Harlem Renaissance was a significant cultural and literary movement that primarily flourished during the 1920s. While it is most frequently associated with the creative output of that decade, some scholars and historical accounts define the movement's broader period as lasting from approximately 1918 to 1937.1234

Centered in the Harlem district of New York City, the movement represented an artistic flowering of the "New Negro" era, characterized by a surge in racial pride, literary experimentation, and a rejection of traditional stereotypes. Although the movement's peak occurred during the 1920s, the influence of its literary vanguard continued for some participants well into the Great Depression of the 1930s.152