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Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance (1920s) was a US arts movement, based in Harlem, and centered around jazz. Major figures included:

Writers

Ralph Ellison, novelist
Zora Neale Hurston, novelist, anthropologist
Nella Larsen, novelist
Langston Hughes, poet
Jessie Fausset[?], novelist
Countee Cullen[?], poet
Claude McKay[?], poet
James Weldon Johnson, poet

Painters

John T. Biggers[?]
Edward Burra[?]
Aaron Douglas[?]
William H. Johnson[?]
Lois Mailou Jones[?]
Jacob Lawrence
Hale Woodruff[?]

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