... to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame....We build our temples for tomorrow, as strong as we know how and we stand on the top of the mountain, free within ourselves."(from Langston Hughes, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.") Their writing also defined the African American heritage and celebrated their new identity as Americans. Some common themes ... Locke published his most talked about essay "The New Negro", in his essay he urged that "Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid." His essays also proposed "s...

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... , 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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