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... the Berry (1929), that ridiculed some elements of the New Negro movement. The Harlem Renaissance was accelerated by charitable grants and scholarships and was supported by white writers such as Carl Van Vechten, author of Nigger Heaven (1926). In Harlem in the 1920's many people, both African-American and white, attended vaudeville shows, dramas, and Broadway plays performed by African-Americans ... ...
... . These include, but are not limited to, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, Carl Van Vechten, and Walter White. W.E.B. Du Bois, in his book The Souls of Black Folk, rejected famed black educator Booker T. Washington's strategies of accommodation and compromise with whites in politics ... ...
... University in Pennsylvania three years later. In 1930 his first novel, Not without Laughter, in which he won the Harmon gold medal for literature. Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his influences, which helped him make him known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. He ... ...
