The Harlem Renaissance is one of the most historic and significant movements in American history; it became a phenomenon that marked more than the fact that African Americans wrote poems and stories, painted and sculpted, and breathed new life into the American theater (Huggins 3). The Renaissance supported to create an African American identity is best remembered as the beginning of African American creativity that sprang from their talented minds. Although it was a literary movement, it also encompassed art, dance, and music. Creative minds born out of the Harlem Renaissance used artistic expressions to impact society in the 1920s and still today. African-American writers had been published since the 19th century, but what made the Harlem Renaissance different and memorable was the spread of the topics they wrote about. Although artists created lasting and important literary, artistic, and musical works, they became equally important in a way that gave African Americans a legitimate culture and a pride in embracing that culture....