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Near the end of World War I the Harlem Renaissance developed while the Hundred Year's War started in Europe. The Renaissance, that occured in New York, was very dark and deppressing. However, the Harlem Renaissance gradually changed from political and social criticism into poetry, fiction, music and art. This era was called the "New Negro". The artists tryed to show their racial experiences and celebrate their culture through their art. The characteristic of their art was free and emotional. The Harlem Renaissance was not occuring in just New York and the U.S., a great number of African American artists traveled to Europe, where they could thrive in an atmosphere that, while perhaps not free of racial prejudice, was at least free from the dreaded Jim Crow laws of the States. The Jim Crow law of States was often used to describe the segregation laws and rules which appeared 1877 and continued until the mid-1960s. This law of States took away many of the rights which had been granted to Blacks.