(A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
(B) Upton Sinclair
(C) ** Langston Hughes
(D) John Steinbeck
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Concept note-1: -Some of the main figures of the literary Harlem Renaissance were Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset, Claude McKay, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, Eric D. Walrond, Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes.
Concept note-2: -What American authors’ works are closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance? Langston Hughes. What development in the 1920s was inconsistent with much of the racial and ethnic intolerance of the decade? Harlem Renaissance.
Concept note-3: -Artists associated with the movement asserted pride in black life and identity, a rising consciousness of inequality and discrimination, and interest in the rapidly changing modern world-many experiencing a freedom of expression through the arts for the first time.
Concept note-4: -Most importantly, the Harlem Renaissance instilled in African Americans across the country a new spirit of self-determination and pride, a new social consciousness, and a new commitment to political activism, all of which would provide a foundation for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Concept note-5: -F-CLAUDE McKAY was the first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance.