... of African Americans to northern cities, such as, New York City, Chicago, and Washington, D.C., between 1919 and 1926. In his influential book The New Negro (1925), Locke described the northward migration of African Americans as "something like a spiritual emancipation." Black urban migration, combined with trends in American society as a whole toward experimentation during the 1920s ... , and the rise of radical African American intellectuals, including, Locke, Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and W.E.B. Du Bois, editor of The Crisis magazine...

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... 1927, and Copper Sun, which was also published, in the same year. (Goetz 780) Cullen became known as a lyric poet and that an English poet mostly influenced his work named John Keats. Most of his best work deals with themes more known or recognized by black Americans without dwelling on dialect or stereotype. He saw all art as universal and believed ... Langston Hughes became a familiar name the, fleet of young novelists and poets launched by the renaissance wrote a body of enduring works of American literature. Among the leading figures were Alain Locke, a Howard University philosopher...

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