A number of factors contributed to the decline of the Harlem Renaissance. The Great Depression of the 1930s increased economic pressure all of America. Organizations such as the NAACP and the Urban League, which had actively promoted the Renaissance in the 1920s, later shifted their interests to economic and social issues. Many influential black writers left New York City in the early 1930s. Finally, the Harlem Riot of 1935 shattered Harlem's intellectual, peaceful image.

The Harlem Renaissance permanently changed African American arts and literature in the United States. The writers that followed in the 1930s and 1940s found that publishers and the public were more open to African American literature than they had been at the beginning of the century. For thousands of African

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