... writer and his two poems, "Negro" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" depicted the 1920's as a time where African Americans were reclaiming their rights and retaliating against their discrimination. Zora Neale Hurston was a writer that depicted the change in women's roles and her story "Sweat" and essay titled " ... one night as he was looking out of the window of the train car watching the Mississippi river go by (Haskins, 19). He began to dream about all the many African Americans who were forced to work alongside this river. He grew very emotional thinking about how hard ... relates to t...

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