... American musicians and other performers also played to mixed audiences. Harlem's cabarets attracted both Harlem residents and white New Yorkers seeking out Harlem nightlife. Harlem's famous Cotton Club carried this to an extreme, by providing black entertainment for exclusively white audiences. To Harlem's aficionados the best clubs were the ones few downtown ... diverse literary expression of the Harlem Renaissance ranged from Langston Hughes' weaving of the rhythms of African American music into his poems of ghetto life, as in The Wary Blues (1926), to Claude McKay's use of the sonnet ...

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... well as African American heroes during that time. Dunbar was a very versatile writer and included comedic, sentimental, dialect and Standard English in his poems. Although Dunbar is often criticized for rarely discussing racial stereotypes and discrimination in his writings, Dunbar's work will forever be remembered, and he will ... An author and lecturer, Frances Harper was born of free parents in 1825 and began to write poetry about race and antislavery in 1854. Harper's books include Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects (1854); Moses: A Story of the Nile (1869); and Iola Leroy, or Shadows Up...

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