African-Americans intensified their pride in culture and their yearning for acceptance as equals in the United States. ... Common themes of the Harlem Renaissance included "twoness" first introduced by W.E.B. ... After the 1930's, Cullen avoided racial themes all together ("Harlem" 1). ... She is noted for her metaphorical language, her story-telling abilities, and her interest in and celebration of Southern black culture in the United States, and this is shown in her best-known novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) (Miers 143). ... Marcus Garvey emphasized to American blacks to b...

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Still even with the performances of black bands and singers, blacks were not allowed to be in the audience. ... "Henderson's arranger, Don Redman, and later Henderson himself, introduced written jazz scores that were widely admired for their effort to capture the quality of improvisation that characterized the music of smaller ensembles." ... (Wintz, Page 64) It was very hard at this time to get their writing out since whites ran all the publishing places. ... Quicksand (1928), by novelist Nella Larsen, offered a powerful psychological study of an African American woman's loss of...

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Horton (2002) says Blacks were scouts, interpreters, navigators, and military men, and were among those who first encountered Native Americans. ... Slaves were confined for two to three months in irons in the hold of a slave ship during the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean called the Middle Passage, where thousands died on their way to the colonies. The vast majority of Africans brought to the British colonies worked as agricultural laborers; many were brought to the colonies specifically for their experience in rice growing, cattle herding, or river navigation (Collier, 1985). ... The movemen...

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