... periods assigned to African American literature is 20th century, 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 these novelists, playwrights and poets have ... of the most recognized female American scholars since her 1970 autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings that is the story about a black girl growing up during the Great Depression. Ang...

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... Medal in 1960. With this medal, he joined the ranks of famous African-Americans who spoke out or showed that racism was wrong such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou, Rosa Parks, and George Washington Carver. The neighborhood of Harlem became the North's largest and the world's best known African American community. The artistic black cultural community consisted of intellectuals ... ...

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