Harlem Renaissance (jan 1, 1920 – jan 1, 1930)

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-Characteristics-
The Harlem Renaissance was the first major burgeoning of visual, literary, and performing arts by African Americans concerned with African American life, art, culture, and politics.
The influence of the Harlem Renaissance remained strong for the remainder of the 20th century.

-Major Writers or Works-
-Poetry: Countee Cullen
-Prose: Jean Toomer.
-Novels: James Weldon Johnson
-Drama: Langston Hughes.

-Biography James Weldon Johnson-
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was an author, politician, diplomat, critic, journalist, poet, anthologist, educator, lawyer, songwriter, civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Johnson is best remembered for his work as a writer, which includes novels, poems, and folklore collections. He was also one of the first African American professors at New York University. He later served as a professor of creative writing at Fisk University.
-Poetry
Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917)
Go Down, Death (1926)
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse (1927)
Saint Peter Relates an Incident (1935)
The Glory of the Day was in Her Face
Selected Poems (1936)
-Other works and collections
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912/1927)
Self-Determining Haiti (1920)
The Book of American Negro Poetry (1922)
The Book of American Negro Spirituals (1925)
Second Book of Negro Spirituals (1926)
Black Manhattan (1930)
Black Americans, What Now? (1934)
Along This Way (1933)
The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson (1995, posthumous collection)

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