Facts about Harlem Renaissance Literature

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   Claude McKay's 1928 novel Home to Harlem was a bestselling work of Harlem Renaissance literature, though it drew criticism from W.E.B. Du Bois for its frank depictions of Black working-class life.

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   Alain Locke's 1925 anthology The New Negro is widely considered the defining literary manifesto of the Harlem Renaissance movement.

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   The journal Crisis, edited by W.E.B. Du Bois, served as a crucial publishing platform for Harlem Renaissance writers and poets.

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   Langston Hughes, a central figure of Harlem Renaissance literature, published his first poetry collection The Weary Blues in 1926.

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   Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, a landmark of Harlem Renaissance literature, was written in just seven weeks.

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