Well attestedNamed from the place
Harlem Renaissance
noun · first attested 20th century
The most American of movements is named for a town in the Netherlands.
The flowering of Black American literature, music, and art centered on upper Manhattan in the 1920s.
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- Named from the place
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
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- 20th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Harlem
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Harlem Renaissance
Dutch settlers named the northern Manhattan settlement Nieuw Haarlem in 1658 after Haarlem in North Holland, and the English kept a clipped spelling of it. Participants at the time spoke of the New Negro movement; the neighborhood label became the standard name only afterward.
United States
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