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Period: to
Harlem Renaissance
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James Weldon Johnson's influential novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is published.
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The politically radical black publication The Messenger is founded.
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Jessie Redmon Fauset becomes literary editor of Crisis.
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Langston Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is published in Crisis.
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Meta Warrick Fuller's sculpture Ethiopia Awakening is shown at the "Making of America" exhibition in New York.
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The Fire in the Flint, a novel by NAACP leader Walter White, is published.
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Poems by Harlem Renaissance star Countee Cullen appear in four major white publications.
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Langston Hughes's novel Not Without Laughter is published.
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Zora Neale Hurston publishes Tell My Horse
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ublications of Hughes The Big Sea; McKay, Harlem: Negro Metropolis.