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Literature
The themes in the literature in the Harlem Renaissance was of a varity. Some new styles came from the Harlem Renaissance such as jazz poetry and modernism. Langston Hughes had traditional African and jazz music into the poetic verses. Folk traditions from Africa, the black experience in America, and the effects of slavery and racism on the black identity were major themes touched on by writers during this time period.

Remembered
The reason the that Harlem Renaisance was remembered as the greatest literary movement is because it change the way people felt. It also changed the way were seen. Charles S. Johnson, began printing promising black writers in each issue. They started meeting people who were amazing writers. In 1924, Johnson organized the first Civic Club dinner, which was planned as a release party for Fauset’s book. The party was an instant success, and served as a forum for emerging African-American artists to meet wealthy white patrons. The party managed to launch the careers of several promising black writer

Langston Hughes
For information and this picture click picture Langston first started living in Harlem when he entered Columbia University, at that time and elegant section on the northern end of Manhattan Island that black people were making their own. The sights and sounds of Harlem, its music and dance and intellectual life, inspired Langston more than his classes in mining engineering, and eventually he quit school. He still sent poems to the Crisis. He had difficulty findinng work so at 21 joined a crew of a ship sailing for Africa then to other places while still writing. Finally he returned to New York ,and he felt like he returned home.

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An outburst of literary activity followed. Hughes's poetry absorbed the rhythms of blues and jazz and the dialect of African American speech that he heard around him. He continued to write and publish in the The Crisis. He met poet Vachel Lindsay, who liked his poems and promoted them. In 1926 Hughes published his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, about Harlem life. ======

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He continued writing in the 1930's and 1940's, speaking for the poor and the homeless. Black people loved to read his stories about daily lives, of their anger and loved ones. When he died in 1967, a jazz band played at his funeral. ======

Countee Cullen for names of writings and this picture click picture Cullen is tied to the Harlem Renaissance, that period of great outpouring of literature of black Americans. However, Cullen was different from many of the poets of that time like Langston Hughes in that he wrote in the traditional English style of poets like Keats and Shelley and was resistant to the modernist technique. And he considered poetry to be "race less." Nonetheless, his best poems dealt with racial themes, such as "The Black Christ." Cullen wrote a novel dealing with life in Harlem entitled, "One Way To Heaven." He also wrote sonnets and short lyrics. But his best works were in poems, especially poems that hit on themes that lie at the heart of African Americans existence.

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