In the book entitled "Harlem Renaissance" by Nathan Irvin Huggins a story is told about the time period before World War I and the following years in which a "Black Metropolis" was created unlike the world had ever seen. It was the largest and by far the most important black community in the world. It brought together black intellectuals from all over the world to this new "Black Mecca" with dreams of prosperity and change. …showed first 75 words of 1362 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1362 total…liberated from white influences. Maybe they would have been razor sharp criticism like W.E.B. Dubois editorials. Unfortunately no one would ever know. As far as their failed attempt at reform he showed some of the mistakes they made but also mentioned that they laid the foundation for a civil rights movement that eventually brought about social change that these Harlem intellectuals promised. Bibliography: Huggins, Irvin, Nathan. Harlem Renaissance: Oxford University Press, New York, 1971.