... , and that would include authors such as Sterling A. Brown, Jean Toomer, Zora Neal Hurston, Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Maya Angelou and the list goes on to include newer African American authors and scholars such as Cornell West, Toni Morrison and Nikki Giovanni. All of ... and her involvement as superintendent of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.) before her death in 1911. 20th century African American writers mainly focus on Post-Reconstruction, Jim Crowism, The Great Migration, The Harlem Renaissance, The Chicago Renaissance, Civil Rights and the presen...

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