Question

What are some lessons we can learn from reading about the Harlem Renaissance? Support your response with evidence from the text.

Answer 1

Answer:

• Langston Hughes was one of the most important writers and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, which was the African American artistic movement in the 1920s that celebrated black life and culture. Hughes's creative genius was influenced by his life in New York City's Harlem, a primarily African American neighborhood.
• Many of Hughes' poems explore the theme of black identity as during the Harlem Renaissance, the black community was having their first chance of freedom and were finally able to express themselves, almost entirely.

Answer 2

Answer:

So the simple celebratory dinner morphed into a transformative event with over one hundred attendees. African Americans were represented by W. E. B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, and others of the black intelligentsia, along with Fauset and a representative group of poets and authors. White guests predominately were publishers and critics; Carl Van Doren, editor of Century magazine, spoke for this group calling upon the young writers in the audience to make their contribution to the "new literary age" emerging in America.1

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