The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural and intellectual expression of African American life that was also affected by white "Negrophiles." White voyeurism of what was termed "primitive Negro" culture, waves of African American migrants from the South, and the synchronicity of so many creative talents converging in Harlem, New York, are some of the circumstances leading to the Harlem Renaissance, a time of creative and intellectual significance originally called the "New Negro Renaissance." Among some of the legacies of this movement are a stronger tradition of social realism and social activism in writing and art. In 1955 James Baldwin wrote in Notes of a Native Son, "I think that the past is all that makes the present coherent, and further, that the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly." The tradition Baldwin followed of the writer highlighting inequities of race and class in America was firmly followed by African American authors and artists of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. The Harlem Renaissance's cultural stars changed America, and their influence was felt throughout the world. However, women's contributions to this era have been overlooked.

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