... and slowly built self-confidence. The growing popularity in Harlem had been used as a unique opportunity to create a positive public image of blacks in the American society. In their popular essays, novels, plays, and newspaper articles, this well-known group set out to change stereotypes of the black culture. All in all the poetic movement became joy and hope to some ... , and perhaps to others it was an inspiration and a guide for the future generation to come. On the day of March 1924, the Harlem Renaissance was publicly recognized, where members of the NAACP such as Langston Hughes, ...

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