One of the leading figures of the period was James Weldon Johnson , author of the pioneering novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), and perhaps best known for God's Trombones (1927), a collection of seven sermons in free verse. ... Claude McKay , an immigrant from Jamaica, produced an impressive volume of verse, Harlem Shadows (1922), and a best-selling novel, Home to Harlem (1928), about a young Negro's return from World War I. ... Langston Hughes published his first collection of verse, The Weary Blues, in 1926, and his novel Not Without Laughter appeared in 1930. ... Thu...

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According to another important historical context, blacks were immigrant from the South. ... According to Black American Literature Forum "Walter White was something of a renaissance man, writing two novels and promoting the arts among black peopleHis two novels were written during the 1920s, and his greatest effort to help black writers and artists came during that decade, tooWhite's efforts on behalf of such writers as Langton Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude Mckay, and Nella Larsen were important to their careers" (Huggins 154). As we can see, Whites wrote two novels to promote...

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On the night of February 4th, 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed and innocent African immigrant, was gunned down in a hail of 41 bullets while standing in the vestibule of his apartment building in the Bronx. ...

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