Some major figures that played a very important part in the Harlem Renaissance are Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, and Jacob Lawrence. ... The song was very controversial because nobody wrote songs about the political and social issues of that time. ... DuBois, who also wrote The Souls of Black Folk, young Langston's favorite book. ... He wrote of their daily lives in America's cities, of their anger and their loves. ... When Hughes died in 1967, a jazz band played at his funeral. ...

• Word Count: 1300
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• Grade Level: High School

Hughes wrote about the many aspects of African American life. ... Hughes wrote all of these because of the profound love and interest in what he does. ... Even the way Hughes wrote showed African American influences. ... According to Meltzer, " The critic had hailed him as a poet who played authentic blues with consummate skill" (123). ... Like every good story Hughes wrote there is always an ending; he was no exception. ...

• Word Count: 1296
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• Grade Level: High School

Music with different beats was being played like jazz, spirituals, and hymns. ... Last, in 1924 a writer and editor named Jesse Fauset that wrote "There Is Confusion." ... Hughes wrote literary types of writing like poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. ... Another writer of the time that wrote poems about black experience was Countee Cullen. ... Second, was that African American literature plays an important part in shaping American literature. ...

• Word Count: 2368
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Hughes" Grandmother played a major role in his life. ... Claude McKay was a radical socialist and wrote accomplished writer of lyric poetry. ... Hughes wrote novels, stories, poems, and plays about Negro life. ... Hughes also wrote about human interaction in "Red-Headed Baby." ... In each story, play, or poem Langston Hughes wrote there is a lesson to be learned, and a flaw to be fixed. ...

• Word Count: 1559
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• Grade Level: High School

Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays, and children's books, he promoted equality, condemned racism and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, humor, and spirituality. ... Hughes's poems, short plays, essays, and short stories began appearing in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications. ... (Life of Langston Hughes, 1902-1941: I, Too, Sing America) He wrote in this essay, "We younger Negro artists now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. ... He wrote sixteen books of poems, two ...

• Word Count: 2112
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• Grade Level: High School

The Blues was an African American music played for many years in the south and in way singers were expressing themselves. ... Here in his poem he considers his self as almost a composer of blues music, and plays with the rhymes and the rhythms as a musician. But also he breaks down a taboo, which is a race problem in the south of the United States: Of black and white black white black people And I"m gonna put white hands And black hands and brown and yellow hands And red clay earth hands in it Touching everybody with kind fingers And touching each other natural as dew (Hughes 586) ...

• Word Count: 1971
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• Grade Level: High School

He wrote about a hope for the future, for all races, and taught his readers to remember the past in a reflecting manner. ... He wrote this poem while riding on a train to visit his father. ... Upon returning to America he wrote a very popular poem called, "I, too, sing America." ... He went on to write many more poems, short stories, and plays. ... Hughes" work influenced so many people, and it's so special because everything he wrote down was sincere and about his life. ...

• Word Count: 1483
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• Grade Level: High School

"A Raisin in the Sun" Lorraine Hansberry wrote the award winning play" A Raisin in the Sun." ... The most overt symbol in the play, Mama's plant represents both Mama's care and her dream for her family. In her first appearance in the play she moves toward her plant to take car of it. ... The play is mainly about dreams, as the main characters struggle to deal with the problems that rule their lives. The title of the play refers to a line in a Langston Hughes poem that questioned about dreams that were forgotten or put off. ...

• Word Count: 1265
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• Grade Level: High School

This was the first time Langston wrote poetry; and he liked it. ... In the twenties Hughes wrote within two main streams of literature. ... Words tuned into songs, plays, scenarios, articles, and stories (Dickenson 60). ...

• Word Count: 1325
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• Grade Level: High School

Hughes might have been twenty-seven when he wrote this poem, but the spirited, upbeat tempo of a schoolboy is present in his style (Emanuel 127). ... Let Louis Armstrong play it And you copyright it And make the money. ... Before his death in May of 1967, he wrote his final poem "Flotsam."" ...

• Word Count: 1313
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• Grade Level: High School

Setting out to write about black Americans, Hughes created a body of work-poetry, fiction, journalism, essays, plays, and song lyrics. ... A lover of books and plays, she had once dreamed of becoming a professional actress. ... In 1927, he wrote one of his best-known Smith 5 essays, "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain." ... A jazz trio played at his funeral, which was attended by nearly three hundred writers, musicians, and black political leaders. ...

• Word Count: 1295
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• Grade Level: High School

The great migration greatly expanded black communities in the North, creating a greater market for black culture of black entertainments and the migrants were played in the nightclubs and hotspots of Harlem. ... As we can see, Whites wrote two novels to promote the Harlem Renaissance and support blacks to express their thoughts. ... In addition, the connection between white and black literatures helped many black writers to publish their works and also whites wrote some literatures to support blacks....

• Word Count: 1512
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Hurston collaborated with Langston Hughes on a play called Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life (Biography.com; Zora Neale Hurston). ... She wrote to her friend Carl Van Vechten: "No acquittal will persuade some people that I am innocent. ...

• Word Count: 1464
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• Grade Level: High School

Theme for English B The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-- Then, it will be true. I wonder if it's that simple? I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this ...

• Word Count: 1930
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• Grade Level: High School

Theme for English B The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-- Then, it will be true. I wonder if it's that simple? I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this ...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School