Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, Carl Van Vechten, and Walter White. ... Zora Neale Hurston is regarded as to be the most important African American writer who wrote before World War II. ...
Du Bois (Sociologist, Civil Rights activist, writer, and editor), Duke Ellington (Big Band Musician, composer, pianist), Bessie Smith (American blues singer and songwriter), Zora Neale Hurston (American short story writer, autobiographer, novelist, and folklorist), and of course Langston Hughes, along with many many more. Hughes, Hurston, and other writers founded a literary journal named Fire!. ...
What was the Harlem Renaissance? What is a renaissance? A renaissance is a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity. There was a famous renaissance in Europe during the transition from medieval times to modern times that is still taught today. The Harlem Renaissance wa...
The Harlem Renaissance was an explosion of African-American arts, with middle and upper-class blacks as the dominant leaders. Poetry has never celebrated pride in African-American culture more than that period in the 20"s. The reasons behind the outburst of artists, ways in which the written word w...
The Harlem Renaissance was a movement originating in Harlem New York in the 1920s. Many African- American poets such as Langston Hughes found their place in this movement. Sidney Bremer's Home in Harlem, New York: Lessons from the Harlem Renaissance Writers, Jon Michael Spencer's The Black Church an...
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. ...
