When the Jim Crow laws were proving to be a menace, making African Americans second-class citizens and hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan perpetrating them with lynchings, African Americans had to embark on some kind of Exodus. “ Leave it to African Americans to always have some kind of suffering Olympics. And who was their Moses?” Ada asked. Well, they were all Moses heading to Harlem from 1905 to the mid-1930s. Over 300,000 African Americans moved from the South to the North to cities like Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles Philadelphia, New York, and the Harlem section of Manhattan which drew over 175000 people. Several brilliant minds were drawn to Harlem such as artists and scholars and they birthed one of the most monumental times of cultural expression: the Harlem Renaissance. With inspiration from their African heritage, these artists showcased prose and poetry, opera and dance, painting and sculpture, jazz and swing. That's right, Jazzzzz with men like Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong. This wave of African art reshaped the use of the word negro. “the negro Renaissance”, coined by Allan Locke in the 1925 anthology, helped to break the stereotypes around African Americans and also to show other African Americans that they are the only ones that could define themselves. Like Langston Hughes said in his poem during the renaissance, “ I too sing America........they’ll see how beautiful I am and be ashamed. And yes, we saw how beautiful the Harlem artists were with Bessie Smith being named the empress of the blues, W.E.B Dubois starting civil rights movements, and Evelyn Preer being the first black actress to earn celebrity popularity. They crawled so we could run. Black child run.....