... 13,000 blacks were settled in their homeland (Collier, 1985). Literature of the Harlem Renaissance In the early 1920s, three works signaled the new creative African American energy in literature. Claude McKay's volume of poetry, Harlem Shadow (1922), Jean Toomer's experimental novel combination of poetry and prose, Cane (1923), and Jessie Fauset's novel about a middleclass black woman, There Is Confusion (1924 ... African American experience in Africa and the American South mixed with a strong sense of racial pride and desire for social and political equality (Collier, 1985). Audience o...

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... end of World War 1 and the Great Depression. These were boom times for the United States, and jobs were abundant in cities, especially in the North. Between 1920 and 1930, almost 750,000 African Americans left the South, and many of them migrated to urban areas in the North to take advantage of the prosperity and the more racially tolerant environment ... " all the social and racial impediments that hindered black achievement. The diverse literary expression of the Harlem Renaissance ranged from the fiction of James Weldon Johnson and the poetry of Claude Mckay which described the realit...

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