In 1929 Wallace Thurman and William Jourden Rapp collaborated on a popular play, "Harlem". Thurman, one of the most individualistic talents of the period, also wrote a satirical novel, The Blacker the Berry (1929), that ridiculed some elements of the New Negro movement. ... The Great Depression caused the Harlem group of writers and entertainers to scatter; many were forced to leave New York or to take other jobs to tide them over the hard times....

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