... 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. ... his play Mulatto (1935) had 373 performances on Broadway. In the early 1930s, an author by the name of Richard Wright began his literary career. Publishing poetry, short stories, and magazines, Wright popped up on the scene during the Civil Rights Ear and Jim Crowism to put forth his ......

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