As many African Americans moved from the rural south to the more urban northern environments, there was an explosion of culture that is typical of many different world views all interacting with each other in a short time span. Many people felt that if they just left the Jim Crow dominated south, that their life and their family's lives were immediately improve, and when they were confronted with the harsh reality that there was still rampant discrimination, even if it wasn't as overt as the south, there was a breaking point and that led to many of the artists that got notoriety during the Harlem Renaissance. Art, poetry, politics all were changed during this time period as a whole group of people were finally given an outlet to speak to the country at large and share their perspective on what it meant to be an American and how that differed from the mainstream point of view.
