simple proof that you have no idea what you are talking about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance
for you TLDR types, after the civil war many now free blacks moved to harlem, established an enclave of New Negro culture, and shit was good. art music poetry, intellectual discourse, and conviviality flourished in an open and accepting atmosphere, as The New Negro stepped into american culture, and re-interpreted it through the Black Experience, creating something new and remarkable.
the last sentence explains why this movement died:
"This progressivist worldview rendered Black intellectuals—just like their White counterparts—unprepared for the rude shock of the
Great Depression, and the Harlem Renaissance ended abruptly because of naive assumptions about the centrality of culture, unrelated to
economic and social realities."
Translation: Too much liberalism, with insufficient economic underpinnings to survive the great depression, and later, during the economic recovery, the slave mentality of waiting for Massah to bring you your food and clothing had re-emerged, destroying almost all real progress in the Black Community.
and the democrats stepped right in to play the benevolent Massah, and offer all the neccessities of life, and all you had to do was submit.
Those heartless Conservatives, demand that you stand.
All the Democrats ask is that you Kneel.