The Southern Renaissance Movement

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The Southern Renaissance was something of a mystery, which started from 1920-1950 and came into many changes with industrialization and urbanization. (Webster 1975). The word “Renaissance” stuck in our mind because of what happened in the south. The slavery, the racial issues, and the civilization of non-changing contradictory evolution was still there. The Renaissance movement was only in the literary arts, poem, fiction and drama. They were not popular in their performing art such as in music or painting and sculpture according to H.L Mencken’s the famous pun in “The Sahara of the Bozart.” (H. L. Mencken. Ed. Huntington Cairns. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1977. Pp. 157-168).
It is referenced, that Renaissance was in despaired spectacle and