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Langston Hughes was the arguably the most influential figure of the Harlem Renaissaince. His unique styles of writing through mixing almost musical rythym and influential messages made him a face of the Harlme Renaissaince
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Langston Hughes2 Online
Langston Hughes most famous works consisted of poems like I, too, sing America, The Negro speaks of Rivers, and dream variations. These poems all discuss the difficulty and plight that the African Americans went through to gain freedom and maintain their freedom.
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Langston Hughes3 Online
Langston Hughes also wrote plays and simple books. His messages although is what made him influential to later groups of African Americans and Justice seekers. Many of his messages can also be seen in American pop culture today.
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Langston Hughes published his firt volumes of poetry in 1926 with the book weary blues which received much attention. He also used variations of the newly popular American music Jazz in his writings by having off beats just like the lyrics in jazz songs may have.
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Countee Cullen Book
Cullens work influenced many future generations of African writers and Cullen even had two of his own childrens works published. He not only was an influential poet from the Harlme Renaissaince but also later in other poetry movements. |
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Countee Cullen1 Online
Countee Cullen was born in 1903 and grew up in New York City. He attended New York University and then went to Harvard University for Grad School. He was very influential in the Early Harlem Renaissaince era along with Langston Hughes.
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Counte Cullen2 Online
Countee Cullens style like Hughes was very inspiring and revolutionary. Some of his works included Heritage, Harlem Wine, Song in Spite of Myself, and Saturdays Child. These poems all represented the new African American culture that sprung out of the Harlem Renaissaince.
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Harlem Renaissaince1 Online
The Harlem Renaissaince was a African American cultural explosion in the 1920's in New York City. It was the first massive population of African Americans living in an Urban Area. Many new artists and writers created works based on African American culture.
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Harlem Renaissaince2 Online
The Harlem Renaissainces major importance was that it was the initially the creation of so much of modern African American culture. Before the Harlem Renaissaince there was not nearly as much of an artistic or cutlural distinction in African American culture. The Harlem Renaissaince developed African American art created by African Americans for the first time massivley.
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Harlem Renaissaince3 Online
The Harlem Renaissaince also has a huge impact on African American culture and American culture in general today. Cultures and Sub Cultures like hip hop can be drawn directly back to the Harlem Renaissaince but so can movements much bigger like the civil rights movement.
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Harlem Renaissaince4 Online
The Harlem Renaissainces direct impact on the Civil rights movement is may not seem noticeable at first but the unity of the movement like the civil rights movement was due to the tight knit African American community the Harlem Renaissaince established. And even the leaders of the civil rights movements were influenced by these men.
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Harlem Renaissaince5 Online
The Harlem Renaissaince was also the start of many musical and artistic movements in paticular jazz. This was hugely important because jazz is the only musical movement that has had it origins in the United States. It soon became a huge movement all throughout the US and the world.
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The Harlem Renaissaince was probably the bigges artistic movement to happen in the United States bringing so many different art forms into play at once. All of the art created still has relevance today and has clearly affected not only African American culture but American culture in general today.
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Writers like Countee Cullen Arna Botemps Jean Tooner and Langston Hughes completley changed the mind of mainstream American on African American abilities in poetry and influence as well as artistic abilities. These men and women created a new culture entirely by themselves.
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