It was also a time for political awakening in the Africa and the Caribbean, to which marcus encouraged the export of his movement. In the era of global black awakening following World War I, Garvey became the best known, the most controversial, and for many the most attractive of a new generation of New Negro leaders. ... Their ideas did not always correspond with Garvey's but the themes of "African redemption" and black self-support was there in the gatherings support for the movement of the African-American society. ... Marcus Garvey lead the movement which achieved a global dimensio...

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The literature they wrote ranged in subject, but race and racial identity was one of the common themes that many Harlem Renaissance authors wrote about. ... As an "awakening" is how u could describe the Harlem Renaissance. ...

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The Great Awakening of the 1740's proved to be an instrumental event of the new African-American spirituality with its focal point on a "personal relationship" with God and conversion of the masses, rather than the liturgical and theological focus prior to the awakening.3 This development enabled lay preachers with no theological background to attempt mass conversion using emotional strategies rather than ideology to persuade non-believers, and created a more accessible Christianity that the slaves could grasp and integrate into their own spirituality. ... The development of their disti...

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Harlem was giving a hope of resurrection to all African Americans in the United States lay awakening the artistic and sociocultural of their community. ... (Hughes 588) These are lines from Langston Hughes' popular poem, Theme for English B, published in 1951. ...

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