This New Negro was to have it "be increasingly recognized that the Negro has already made very substantial contributions, not only in his folk-art, music especially, which has always found appreciation, but in larger, though humbler and less acknowledged ways. ... Hughes was in the heart of the movement that we know as the Harlem Renaissance. ... They thought the race problem had at last been solved through Art and Gladys Bentley. ...

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