The document provides an overview of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement centered in Harlem, New York in the 1920s-1930s that celebrated African American arts and literature. It discusses how increased opportunities for black Americans led to the development of the movement, and highlights some of the prominent writers and artists that helped express the black experience through their work, such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Duke Ellington. It also describes some of the factors that contributed to the decline of the movement in the mid-1930s.