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  2. Harlem Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The Harlem Renaissance was successful in that it brought the black experience clearly within the corpus of American cultural history. Not only through an explosion of culture, but on a sociological level, the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance redefined how America, and the world, viewed African Americans. The migration of Southern blacks to the ...

  3. The Messenger (magazine) - Wikipedia

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    The Messenger was an early 20th-century political and literary magazine by and for African-American people in the United States. It was important to the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance and initially promoted a socialist political view. The Messenger was co-founded in New York City by Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph in August 1917.

  4. New Negro - Wikipedia

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    Historically, the term is present in African American discourses since 1895, but is most recognized as a central term of the Harlem Renaissance [2] (1917-1928). The term has a broad relevance to the period in U.S. history known as the Post-Reconstruction, whose beginnings were marked symbolically by the notorious compromise of 1877 and whose impact upon black American lives culminated in the ...

  5. Why a Harlem Renaissance poet spent two years at K-State - AOL

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    Feb. 13—What brought a young poet from Jamaica, a man who would become one of the most important writers of the Harlem Renaissance, to Manhattan, Kansas, to study agronomy? Claude McKay, who ...

  6. Charlotte Osgood Mason - Wikipedia

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    Charlotte Osgood Mason, born Charlotte Louise Van der Veer Quick (May 18, 1854, Franklin Park, New Jersey – April 15, 1946, New York City), [1] was a white American socialite and philanthropist. She contributed more than $100,000 to a number of African-American artists and writers of the Harlem Renaissance , equal to more than $1 million in 2003.

  7. 50 years on, Harlem Week shows how a New York City ... - AOL

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    Harlem Week stands as “the constant line through the last 50 years of America’s most historic Black neighborhood,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, whose National Action Network is headquartered ...

  8. The Met’s ‘The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic ... - AOL

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    To further explore the impact of the Harlem Renaissance, tune into theGrio’s upcoming podcast “Harlem and Moscow.”Based on the true story of one of America’s best-kept literary secrets ...

  9. The New Negro - Wikipedia

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    The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925) is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature edited by Alain Locke, who lived in Washington, DC, and taught at Howard University during the Harlem Renaissance. [1]