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Instead of using direct political means, African-American artists, writers, and musicians

employed culture to work for goals of civil rights and equality. Its lasting legacy is that for the

first time (and across racial lines), African-American paintings, writings, and jazz became

absorbed into mainstream culture. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement",

named after an anthology, entitled The New Negro, of notable African-American works,

published by philosopher Alain Locke in 1925. It is certainly an era that African-Americans can

be proud of and a time when a once severely oppressed people, began to expect more from life.

They became more vocal and expressive about the state of their affairs. They took charge of

adding flair and joviality to their lifestyle. Harlem Renaissance is presented with the art of

William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones and Sargent Claude Johnson. Aaron Douglas is

considered to be a "father of Afro-American Art".Other prominent artists associated with the

Harlem Renaissance are Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Archibald Motley and later

influenced by the movement artists: Charles Sebree, John Biggers, Hale Woodruff, Beauford

Delaney and Ernie Barnes.