... , as well as finding his future wife, Ethal Woodward, a fellow Alcorn graduate. Their marriage produced six children including both respected scholar William Leo Hansburry, and Lorraine's father, successful businessman, Carl Hansburry. The story of Lorraine's mother, Nanny Hansburry, begins with Lorraine's great grandfather, escaped slave, George Perry. After his escape, Perry worked in New York, saving enough money to ... Hansburry was born. Upon receiving the birth certificate her parents made an unmistakable alteration, replacing the word "Negro" under race with a "B" for black. At th...

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... his life and influenced his works. Other people influenced Langston's life in addition his grandmother. Some included Paul Laurence Dumber, Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, and Claude McKay. Paul Laurence Dumber was known as "master of dialect and standard verse." Hughes referred to Carl Sandburg as "my guiding star." He guided Hughes toward verse and a radically democratic modernist aesthetic. Claude McKay was a radical ... ...

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... his high school years, Langston lived in basements and attics. At his high school, he wrote poems for their newspaper the Belfry Owl. Langston tried to write his poems like Carl Sandburg. He wrote poems about love, about the steel mills where his stepfather worked, the poverty he lived in, and the girls from the south. In high school, Langston was ... ...

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... ; Zora Neale Hurston). Hurston was crushed. She felt betrayed by her own community. The stress was detrimental to her mental health and she became suicidal. She wrote to her friend Carl Van Vechten: "No acquittal will persuade some people that I am innocent. All that I have believed in has failed me. I have resolved to die." With support from some of ... ...

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... been translated into German, French, Spanish, Russian, Yiddish and Czech. John Alden Carpenter, William Grant Still and others have set many of them to music. Langston claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his inspirations for being a poet. Hughes is known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the 20's to the 60's. Unlike ... ...

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... with his mother, who now was remarried. The family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, for his stepfathers work. Langston was interested in poetry, but it was when he found poems by Carl Sandbury, when he became seriously influenced by the un-rhyming, free verse style. After graduating from a highschool in Cleveland, Langston spent a year with his father who had light skin, there ... ...

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... the Berry (1929), that ridiculed some elements of the New Negro movement. The Harlem Renaissance was accelerated by charitable grants and scholarships and was supported by white writers such as Carl Van Vechten, author of Nigger Heaven (1926). In Harlem in the 1920's many people, both African-American and white, attended vaudeville shows, dramas, and Broadway plays performed by African-Americans ... ...

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... creak their work. In 1927 she converted her mansion on west 136th street into a club called The Dark Tower that showcased different kinds of art work. A young white aristocrat named Carl Van Vetchen also funded many artists. Bessie Smith was an incredibly popular Blues singer during the Harlem Renaissance. She employed suggestive lyrics coupled with a slow, sentious sound that earned her ... ...

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... Blues" II. Return to college a. Attended the first African American College 1. Attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania b. Returned as an acclaimed poet III. Hughes mentors for writing a. Paul Lawrence Dunbar and Carl Sandburg were his primary influences b. Began writing creatively while still a boy 1. Contributed to the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's IV. Short Stories and Novels a. He wrote novels, short stories, poetry ... ...

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... a new award until 1950. In 1950, she became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Annie Allen, her second work of poetry. She also received the late Carl Sandburg as a poet laureate of Illinois in 1968. In conclusion, Gwendolyn Brooks has not only influenced black people, but white people too. She has showed us that anything is possible ... ...

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... that Negro people would have to develop self-sufficiency and no longer rely on seemingly altruistic efforts of other people. Secondly, the publication of Nigger Heaven (1926) by white novelist Carl Van Vechten was a surprisingly popular exposé of Harlem life. The book showed both sides of Harlem, helping create a "Negro vogue- that drew thousands of New Yorkers, black and white ... ...

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... , strolled along Seventh Avenue. A fresh generation of writers emerged, although a few were born in Harlem. The movement was accelerated by grants and scholarships and supported by such white writers as Carl Van Vechten. The most gifted gravitated to center of black population to the north of 125th street in upper Manhattan that gave it the name The Harlem Renaissance. Harlem's nightlife ... ...

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