... another point which would date the Harlem Renaissance in earlier times. Claude McKay` s poetry of 1917 presents some of the most important pieces of the Harlem Renaissance as well. And John Hope Franklin even claimed that the Harlem Renaissance lasted until 1960 with only a little negligible interruptions. Sterling Brown, a participant of the Renaissance, even denied the Renaissance being a literary movement. Cary ... 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, ...

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... a constant reminder to his characters, showing that the stench of slavery cannot be washed away or otherwise forgotten as suggested by other New Negro writers during the earlier 20th century. John Armstrong in the New York Tribune said 'the Southern Negro [had] found an authentic lyrical voice in Jean Toomer'.25 Toomer uses homages to music as a way to highlight ... had to understand slavery and it's effects in order to move forward. The New Negro movement was flawed, as it did not try to comprehend the effects of slavery. Alain Locke proclaimed in his book The New Negro 'negr...

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