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... the cities rose to fame. The 1920's saw the first significant amount of publishing of works by black artists, to name some of them they are Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Rudolph Fisher since the turn of the century. Migration to the north seemed a necessity due to the more and more intolerable hiring conditions for blacks in the south. Industrial ... ...
... literary revivals, is believed to have begun in 1923 with Jean Toomer's novel Cane. Besides Toomer, some of the important writers of the time can be listed as Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay. Claude MacKay's "America" is a poem about the African Americans" life and the bitterness of that life resulting from the prejudice and hatred of ... ...
... their poems against these events. Langston Hughes was also an extremely popular poet who condemned violence against African Americans and spoke proudly of being black in his poems. Zora Neale Hurston was not a poet but an African American novelist, traveled around the South in her old car collecting stories, songs, and prayers of black southerners which she published in the book ... ...
