The name given to the African-American artistic and intellectual movement that took place in New York City during the 1920s is Harlem Renaissance. It is a movement that also included the new African-American cultural expressions across the urban areas in the Northeast and Midwest United States affected by the African-American Great Migration, of which Harlem was the largest. The Harlem Renaissance was called African-American arts to be rebirth. And it was centered in the Harlem.