... written by Blacks to be published. With these early works as the foundation, three events between 1924 and 1926 launched the Harlem Renaissance. First, The Survey Graphic, a magazine of social analysis and criticism, produced a Harlem issue in March 1925. The Harlem issue featured work by black writers and artists, which was edited by black philosopher and literary scholar Alain Locke (Collier ... . In 1927, Countee published two more volumes of verse - Copper Sun and The Ballad of the Brown Girl - and edited an anthology of Negro poetry called Caroling Dusk. In the poem "Heritage- (1927...

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