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Harlem Renaissance
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...Harlem Renaissance, term used to describe a flowering...readership. Writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance include Arna Bontemps, Langston...Van Der Zee and Roy De Carava. The Harlem Renaissance faded with the onset of the Great......
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Toomer, Jean
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......D.C., as Nathan Eugene Toomer. A major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, he is known mainly for Cane (1923, rev. ed. 1988...Toomer, Artist (1984); G. Fabre, Jean Toomer and the Harlem Renaissance (2000)....
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Walker, Madam C. J.
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......McWilliams, was a well-known cultural figure in the 1920s, maintaining a salon attended by many members of the Harlem Renaissance. See T. Due, The Black Rose (2000); A. Bundles, On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J......
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Harlem
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......influential African-American community in the nation, one of the centers of innovation in jazz, and the home of such Harlem Renaissance authors as Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston. In East Harlem, a largely Italian neighborhood......
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Hurston, Zora Neale
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......Tongue Got to Confess, was discovered in manuscript and published in 2001. Hurston, a significant figure in the Harlem Renaissance, was also the author of four novels including Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934) and the influential Their Eyes Were......
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Cullen, Countee
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......American poet, b. New York City, grad. New York Univ. 1925, M.A. Harvard, 1926. A major writer of the Harlem Renaissance—a flowering of black artistic and literary talent in the 1920s—Cullen wrote poetry inspired by American......
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Hughes, Langston
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...Langston Hughes (James Langston Hughes), 1902–67, American poet and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, b. Joplin, Mo., grad. Lincoln Univ., 1929. He worked at a variety of jobs and lived in several countries, including......
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McKay, Claude
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......American poet and novelist, b. Jamaica, studied at Tuskegee and the Univ. of Kansas. A major figure of the Harlem Renaissance, McKay is best remembered for his poems treating racial themes. His works include the volumes of poetry Spring......
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Van Vechten, Carl
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......efforts to promote better interracial relations. See E. Bernard, ed., Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten (2001); E. Bernard, Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance (2012)....