In the 1920’s African Americans developed artistic views throughout art, poetry, dance, etc. This movement was known as the “Negro Movement” or as most people know as the Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance took place during the 1920’s and 1930’s this was a time when great changes were being made. African Americans began to come together expressing themselves a which created their uniqueness in artistry. Great men and women such as Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, and Jacob Lawrence contributed to the Harlem Renaissance with their diverse artwork which gained more respect and rights for African Americans. Aaron Douglas would be one of many artist during the Harlem Renaissance. Aaron was born on May 26, 1899 in Topeka, Kansas where he also was educated. He attended art at Lincoln High School in Kansas City, Missouri with most of his friends such as Roy Wilkins, William Levi Dawson, and Ethel Ray (Leininger-miller 637). “Douglas soon became one of the leading artists of the New Negro movement” (637). In this time the “New Negro movement” was also known as the Harlem Renaissance which African Americans began to speak up about the Jim Crow…show more content… Douglas went on and received a one- year scholarship to the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania, where he studied both African and modern European art (637). Douglas based himself in New York as an arts leader and muralist, where the New Deal art sponsored programs, and grants, Douglas created and completed murals, about the Aspects of Negro Life (637). He received a travel fellowship to Haiti where his paintings of the Haitian life at the Art Gallery in New York the following year. Aaron began to divide his time between Nashville where he was teaching art at Fisk University, and New York where he completed his art education (Leininger-Miller
