As an African American composing (and endeavoring to distribute) poetry in the United States just 60 or somewhere in the vicinity years after the end of the Civil War, a period when indications of prejudice-including explicit segregation, brutality, and even lynchings-were still widespread, Langston Hughes inescapably investigated such points as oppression and liberation in his work (Evans 2010). ... His writings united individuals of African ancestry and Africa over the globe to support pride in their ever changing black society. ... Understanding his work is understanding pride in the Africa...

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Some common themes did exist however, such as an interest in the roots of the African American experience in Africa and in the South, and a strong sense of racial pride and a desire for social and political equality. ... The black philosopher Alian Locke published his most talked about essay "The New Negro", in his essay he urged that "Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid." ...

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When Margarite listens song "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson's she prides for black people because they also can have all opportunities to reach their goals and to be the part of "the wonderful, beautiful Negro race" (156). ... She does not give up and "fights" with racist hiring policies in San Francisco to get her first real job as streetcar conductor "The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time that she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of ...

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