history of African Americans...included not only well-established literary figures such as Du Bois and the poet James Weldon Johnson but also new young writers such as Claude McKay, whose militant poem “
If We Must Die” is perhaps the most-quoted African American literary work of this period. Other outstanding writers of the Harlem Renaissance were the novelist Jean Toomer and the poets Countee...
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