... a name for themselves during this movement. These include, but are not limited to, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, Carl Van Vechten, and Walter White. W.E.B. Du Bois, in his book The Souls of Black Folk, rejected famed black educator Booker T. Washington's strategies of accommodation ... used the traditional sonnet form. After the 1930's, Cullen avoided racial themes all together ("Harlem" 1). In the early 1920s several works signaled the new creativ...

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