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 = Describe how literature played a big role during the Harlem Renaissance. =  The Harlem Renaissance was a time of cultural renewal among African Americans,   concurrent with the Jazz Age during the 1920s. Centered on the activities of African-  American writers, artists, and musicians in the Harlem district of New York City, the new  appreciation for and celebration of black culture spread throughout the United States and  around the world. The Harlem Renaissance was shaped by the Great Migration. Seeking jobs and a better way of life than that offered in the economically stagnant South, African Americans  began moving to northern cities during the early 20th century. Migration to urban centers  and an increase in jazz clubs and black publishing ventures were occurring in the   Caribbean and Europe as well.  = Why is the Harlem Renaissance remembered as one of the greatest literary movements? = Urban African-American intellectuals and activists rejected the stereotypes that had bound rural workers and called for a new investigation of black life and culture that depicted real experience. At the same time, respect for the artistic achievements of African Americans grew as their literature, art, and music flourished. Not only fiction,  poetry, and drama, but also critical essays and political analyses were shared through  such periodical literature as <span style="font-family: Times-Italic,sans-serif;">//The Crisis.// Writers like anthropologist and novelist Zora <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Times-Roman,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Neale Hurston, poet Countee Cullen, and novelist and songwriter James Weldon Johnson  <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times-Roman,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">produced great art as they explored new perspectives from which to evaluate the place of  <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times-Roman,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0in;">African Americans in U.S. society. = Describe the life and influence of the following writer/poets of the Harlem Renaissance =

Langston Hughes- **Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes was a member of an abolitionist family. Hughes attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade, and was selected as Class Poet. His father didn't think he would be able to make a living at writing, and encouraged him to pursue a more practical career. He paid his son's tuition to Columbia University on the grounds he study engineering. After a short time, Langston dropped out of the program with a B+ average; all the while he continued writing poetry. His first published poem was also one of his most famous, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", and it appeared in Brownie's Book. Later, his poems, short plays, essays and short stories appeared in the NAACP publication //Crisis Magazine// and in //Opportunity Magazine// and other publications. One of Hughes' finest essays appeared in the //Nation// in 1926, entitled "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain".**

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