Harlem Renaissance is an era of which the blackAmerican race is proud at most. Beginning in the 1920s and ending towards1930s, the movement was known as the New Negro Movement at the time. Havingbeen frustrated and forced to isolation under Jim Crow segregation the NewNegro intellectuals gathered in Harlem. The works they produced had adistinguished aspect different from the previous black art and culture. Theywere products of black minds and highlighted the black culture with a racialawareness. The black artists of the Renaissance did not feel an obligation tobe welcome by their white counterparts, yet in contrary they were boasted oftheir black side and attached a special importance to being both black andAmerican. They were relatively more radical compared to the old Negro mentalitywho sought for a passive integration of the black race into the Americannation. The main point discussed in this article is the extent of successreached in their quest of being original and black. The article puts forth boththe aspects to be proud of and the negative sides that halted the progress ofthe black race towards the civil rights acquisition and equality.