In the 1920s, literature blossomed and became a key factor in the Harlem Renaissance. ... The writers of the Harlem Renaissance helped people of all communities to identify black people as living, thinking, feeling humans, instead of the animals that some whites felt they were at the time. ... The literature appealed to the African American middle class and to the white book buying public. ... The Harlem Renaissance changed forever the dynamics of African American literature in the United States. ... The literature from the Harlem Renaissance inspired writers such as Ralph Ellison and Richard ...

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Nevertheless, white critics, patrons and publishers in the era of the Harlem Renaissance were critical for the growth of African-American literature, and its new role in the whole American culture. ... Whites spend money and promoted African-American literatures, these actions were not for making any profits. They just wanted to help blacks through their intelligences and cultures to strive for their equal rights and expressed the fascination of African-American cultures. ... According to Black American Literature Forum "Walter White was something of a renaissance man, writing two novel...

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In the early 1900s, particularly in the 1920s, African-American literature, art, music, dance, and social commentary began to flourish in Harlem, a section of New York City. ... Cullen helped bring more Harlem poets to public notice by editing Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets in 1927. ...

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