Describe the cultural importance of Harlem Reniassance,its impact on black self esteem, and how it helped change the opinion many whites had on...

While Hubert Harrison in the 1927 Pittsburgh Courier challenged the notion of a renaissance as principally a white invention, he did recognize the "flowering of Negro literature" as James Weldon Johnson preferred to call it.  The burgeoning of creative efforts in music and literature came with the massive migration of African Americans to the North.  There, they lived in sections of large cities of the United States, giving voice to their dreams and desires through the arts.

By the 1910s, the black community had established a middle class, and a greater market grew for their art, literature, Jazz, and the Blues.  With the premiere of Three Plays for a Negro Theatre, written by a white playwright, Ridgely Torrence, black actors played roles with human emotions and feelings, not stereotypes of blackface or minstrel show traditions. 

Soon, the musical style of piano jazz and blues became very popular with the white community.  White novelists and composers began to exploit the musical tendencies and themes of the blacks into their works.  And, whites began to attend the Cotton Club, the Savoy Ballroom, and the Apollo Theatre, much to the dislike of many of the black community as these were venues where blacks felt free to express themselves without restraint and as a unified group.