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    1920-1929
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 26, 1999
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...by a black American. Other well-known renaissance writers: James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Countee Cullen, Jean Toomer and Langston Hughes. MOVIE MAGIC George Eastman exhibits the first color motion pictures in Rochester, N.Y. LADY...
     
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    Learning to Read Good Poetry as It Should Be Read
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 19, 2005
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...become more eccentric. We have Wallace Stevens and Robert Lowell as well as "Daddy" by Sylvia Plath. But we also have Jean Toomer, Rochelle Kant, Ralph Pomeroy and others that even English majors from the recent cognitive age might not recognize...
     
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    Tales from a Life Lived Hither and Yon
    Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, May 31, 1998
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...for their parents notice, then that of any young man brought to the house (in 1919, Rose Hahn brought the writer Jean Toomer home with her one day) was fierce. When Emily was 15, the family moved to the much bigger city of Chicago, and adjusting...
     
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    How American Novelists after Civil War Tackled the Matter of Manners
    Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 29, 2003
    Subjects: 
    Howells, William Dean
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...literary editor of "The Crisis" in the 1920s, where she helped foster the careers of writers like Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston. In the four novels she wrote in the 1920s and early 1930s...
     
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    Jazzed on Duke
    Newspaper article by Raymond M. Lane; The Washington Times, May 18, 2000
    Subjects: 
    Ellington, Duke, Washington, Booker T.
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...legal director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. We pass the home of poet and writer Jean Toomer - widely seen as the literary father of the Harlem Renaissance - where he wrote his seminal "Cane" collection of poems...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: jean toomer

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    Toomer, Jean
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    TOOMER, JEAN 1894 1967, American writer, b. Washington, D.C., as Nathan Eugene Toomer. A major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, he is known for one work, Cane (1923), a collection of stories, poems, and sketches about black life...
     
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    Harlem Renaissance
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...include Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes , Claude McKay , Countee Cullen , James Weldon Johnson , Zora Neale Hurston , and Jean Toomer . Visual artists connected with the movement are less generally known. Among the painters are Aaron Douglas, Palmer...
     

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