... African-American culture and also the role of whites were never mentioned. Many people may think there only the negative responses of whites in the Harlem Renaissance because according to Claude Mckay who was one of the most important poets and writers in the Harlem Renaissance, his poems If We Must Die and America both illustrated the negatives responses and whites ... written during the 1920s, and his greatest effort to help black writers and artists came during that decade, tooWhite's efforts on behalf of such writers as Langton Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude Mckay, and Nella Larsen ...

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