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Harlem Renaissance
As we all know the Harlem Renaissance was a rise for African American people. The literature and the art and music flourished the black community during the 1920s through the 1930s. Before the Harlem Renaissance began, blacks migrated from the south to the northern states for more job opportunities and education.
The musical aspect of the Harlem Renaissance caught my interest most because of how the music emerged in the nineteenth century. Dancing was also very popular in the Negro movement. Writers such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston and Countee Cullen, where all influential writers during the Harlem Renaissance era. As Americans experience the great depression the Harlem Renaissance began to decline; blacks continued to have to face segregation and discrimination.
The Harlem Renaissance literature was my favorite because they had writers such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and Countee Cullen who were all well-known writers. Langston Hughes was the great grandfather to Charles Henry Langston, brother of John Mercer Langston who was the first African American to be elected for public office in 1855. Langston’s father didn’t think that writing would help him make a living for himself and that he should pursue another career. Langston went ahead and took his father advice and pursue another profession. However Langston did maintain a B average but his heart wasn’t into engineering.
Langston Hughes had his first published poem and it was one of the people favorite and famous the also which was “the Negro speaks of Rivers.” The poem also appeared in a NAACP Publication magazine. Langston in 1923 traveled abroad and he went to thirteen different places the last one was Harlem in New York and he went to most clubs listening to blues, jazz and poetry.
Langston experience going to these different and that cause him to develop a new
Rhythm emerged in his writing and poetry. Langston was or the Harlem Renaissance...
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