Literature created during the Civil Rights Movement in America has always drawn audiences, and there are poets and authors who have made important contributions to the creation of a specific literary style of this time. Langston Hughes is a well-known American poet whose poetry became especially well-known and endearing during…
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The Harlem Renaissance was a social and cultural movement that occurred in Harlem towards the end of the World War I until the mid-1930s. During that period Harlem was a popular cultural focal point attracting authors, scholars and photographers, fleeing from the oppressive political regime of the south. The main…
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The Harlem Revival in the early 20th century was the expansion of New York’s Harlem community into a black urban mecca (Weaver, 12). Furthermore, as a result, it was the artistic and eventual social explosion that occurred. That time was well-thought-out as a golden era of African American culture in…
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