I will be doing an essay on African American theater history. ... I know that it has been around for hundreds of years and when you are done reading this essay, I hope you have learned a lot. ... 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. ...

• Word Count: 1283
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

One writer that is widely popular is Langston Hughes. Hughes wrote literary types of writing like poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. ... He published an essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," where he introduced to the people black literary identity. ... Although, there were controversy between the white publishers and the audience, there were writers like Hughes that supported the idea and said "artists intended to express themselves freely, no matter what the black public or white public thought." ...

• Word Count: 2368
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School