USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Langston Hughes (1901-1967) As the most influential and widely celebrated voice of the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes also wrote essays, novels, short stories and plays, all of which centered and celebrated Black life and pride in African American heritage.

Detailed explanation-3: -The movement included Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Rudolf Fisher, Wallace Thurman, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Nella Larsen, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston. The Renaissance incorporated jazz and the blues, attracting whites to Harlem speakeasies, where interracial couples danced.