History of the United States II / Unit 9 USH2 1230 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Writers of Harlem
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The idea
Claude McKay wrote If We Must Die in response to the Red Summer of nineteen nineteen, and Langston Hughes wrote The Colored Soldier.
In practice
The Yawp's count: women such as Jessie Redmon Fauset and Zora Neale Hurston wrote nearly a third of the movement's novels.
Where people slip
Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God appeared in nineteen thirty-seven, after this decade.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- Nothing yet depends on this.
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