... crash of the stock market of 1929 . But there is no clear evidence that the Harlem Renaissance started exactly at this time because there are scholars who see a poem by W.E.B. Du Bois, "Song of Smoke", as the first magnificent piece of this movement, and "Song of Smoke" was written in 1899. There is another point which would date the Harlem Renaissance in ... as a group of young writers "orbiting around" an older group of black intellectuals who were established in the NAACP, Urban League or black journals. These older men were for example, W. E. B. Du Bois, Alain Locke or James Weldon ...

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... from the Republican to the Democratic party and in the increasing influence of Black organizations. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 by W. E. B. Du Bois and was dedicated to securing full civil and political rights for Black Americans. The Urban League was founded in 1910 with the goal of acclimating recent migrants to the rigors ... in the 1920s, shifted their interests to economic and social issues in the 1930s. Many influential black writers and literary promoters, including Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Charles S. Jo...

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