poets
Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance started in the decades immediately following World War I, when huge numbers of African Americans migrated to the industrial North from the economically depressed and agrarian South.
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name |
years | schools & movements |
|---|---|---|
| Jean Toomer | 1894-1967 | Harlem Renaissance |
| Anne Spencer | 1882-1975 | Harlem Renaissance |
| Claude McKay | 1889-1948 | Harlem Renaissance |
| Georgia Douglas Johnson | 1880-1966 | Harlem Renaissance |
| James Weldon Johnson | 1871-1938 | Harlem Renaissance |
| Langston Hughes | 1902-1967 | Harlem Renaissance, Jazz Poetry |
| Jessie Redmon Fauset | 1882-1961 | Harlem Renaissance |
| Alice Dunbar-Nelson | 1875-1935 | Harlem Renaissance |
| Countee Cullen | 1903-1946 | Harlem Renaissance |
| Sterling A. Brown | 1901-1989 | Harlem Renaissance |