 - Zora Neale Hurston

The Harlem Renaissance was successful in that it brought the Black experience clearly within the corpus of American cultural history.Not only through an explosion of culture, but on a sociological level, the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance redefined how America, and the world, viewed African Americans.The migration of southern Blacks to the north changed the image of the African American from rural, undereducated peasants to one of urban, cosmopolitan sophistication.