... God's Trombones (1927), a collection of seven sermons in free verse. Johnson also acted as mentor to many of the young black writers who formed the root of the Harlem group. Claude McKay , an immigrant from Jamaica, produced an impressive volume of verse, Harlem Shadows (1922), and a best-selling novel, Home to Harlem (1928), about a young Negro's return from World War I. Countee ... ...

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... " in 1920. Many enormously successful Broadway musicals came about as well, such as Eubie Blake's Shuffle Along. The Harlem Renaissance was above all a literary movement, when famous novelists such as Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes produced work describing the bitterness and defiance, but also joy and hope of African American life. Through the widespread popularity of the automobile, the popularization of ... ...

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