USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME OF THE 1920S

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Author who’s depiction of the black experience was essential to the Harlem Renaissance.
A
Clarence Darrow
B
Marcus Garvey
C
Langston Hughes
D
Babe Ruth
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Langston Hughes took a stand for the possibilities of Black art and made his mark in the artistic movement by breaking boundaries in poetry. He was the first to use jazz rhythms and dialect to depict the life of urban Black people in his work.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hughes, like others active in the Harlem Renaissance, had a strong sense of racial pride. Through his poetry, novels, plays, essays, and children’s books, he promoted equality, condemned racism and injustice, and celebrated African American culture, humor, and spirituality.

Detailed explanation-3: -Langston Hughes, 1902 – 1967, was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the art form called “Jazz Poetry. Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -F-CLAUDE McKAY was the first important writer of the Harlem Renaissance.

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