... coincided with his entrance into Lincoln University. Langston spent the summer of 1926 in New York where he met other great minds of the movement like Wallace Thurman, and Zora Hurston. In 1927 Langston was invited to read some of his poetry at the Fisk University commencement exercises, and at a YWCA the following week, he accepted eagerly and spent the summer ... ...

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... Theater. She also organized the Negro People's theater, which was the beginning of modern black theatre movement. Writers like Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Fredrick Douglass, W.E.B Dubois, Gwendolyn Brook, Zoral Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, James Baldwin and many more writers have paved the way for the work's of African American literature. The term "African American Literature" is understood by most ... ...

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