When did the Harlem Renaissance begin and end?

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The Weary Blues cover — Harlem Renaissance Dust jacket designed by the Mexican illustrator and writer Miguel Covarrubias for Langston Hughes's *The Weary Blues* (1926), a book of experimental poetry.

The Harlem Renaissance is generally considered to have taken place from approximately 1918 to 1937.1

This influential cultural movement, which served as a flowering of African American arts and literature, was characterized by a rejection of long-standing stereotypes and an embrace of self-expression and racial pride. While the movement flourished throughout the 1920s, its literary and artistic impact persisted into the 1930s despite the onset of the Great Depression. Some scholars point to works published in the early 1930s, such as Arna Bontemps’s 1931 novel God Sends Sunday, as among the final contributions to the movement.2134