... modern African-American history (McKissack 11). One of the most important writers who was responsible for the growth of the Harlem Renaissance was Jean Toomer. The Harlem Renaissance brought African-American literature and art to the attention of "White America". The Harlem Renaissance was an African-American ... half African-American. Jean Toomer's father left his wife and son shortly after his birth. Jean's mother, Nina Toomer, had originally named him Nathan Eugene in 1896. Later in his life he went by the name Eugene Pinchback Toomer. Eventually he went by the name we know him by tod...

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... of a Dream Deferred. His life and work were very important for contributions of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Unlike other important black poets of the period "Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, and Countee Cullen--Hughes refused to tell apart between his personal experience and the same experience of black America. He wanted to tell the stories of his people in ways ... ...

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... not all, barriers like segregation were decreased noticeably. He wrote numerous protest poems in which he used irony to get his points across to the reader. Hughes was influenced by Jean Toomer, another black writer and poet. It seemed as though Hughes used his poetry as a way to combat against the ongoing struggle that African-Americans still face today. Many believe that ... ...

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... American literature. Among the leading figures were Alain Locke, a Howard University philosopher, the first black Rhodes Scholar, and the editor of the New Negro. Others included biracial novelist and poet Jean Toomer, Poets Langston Hughes and Cullen, both leading voices of the period. Novelist and poet Claude Mckay, writer and editor Jessie Fausset, novelist and folk anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, novelist Nella ... ...

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