... for their poems against these events. Langston Hughes was also an extremely popular poet who condemned violence against African Americans and spoke proudly of being black in his poems. Zora Neale Hurston was not a poet but an African American novelist, traveled around the South in her old car collecting stories, songs, and prayers of black southerners which she published in the book ... ...

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... Experimental Theater. She also organized the Negro People's theater, which was the beginning of modern black theatre movement. Writers like Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Fredrick Douglass, W.E.B Dubois, Gwendolyn Brook, Zoral Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, James Baldwin and many more writers have paved the way for the work's of African American literature. The term "African American Literature" is understood by most ... ...

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