Harlem renaissance

By angelofd3partur
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    Harlem Renaissance

  • James Weldon Johnson's influential novel Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is published.

  • The politically radical black publication The Messenger is founded.

  • Jessie Redmon Fauset becomes literary editor of Crisis.

  • Langston Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is published in Crisis.

  • Meta Warrick Fuller's sculpture Ethiopia Awakening is shown at the "Making of America" exhibition in New York.

  • The Fire in the Flint, a novel by NAACP leader Walter White, is published.

  • Poems by Harlem Renaissance star Countee Cullen appear in four major white publications.

  • Langston Hughes's novel Not Without Laughter is published.

  • Zora Neale Hurston publishes Tell My Horse

  • ublications of Hughes The Big Sea; McKay, Harlem: Negro Metropolis.