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Great Authors
George Schuyler
was an American writer, journalist, and social commentator known for his outspoken political conservatism after repudiating his earlier advocacy of socialism.
Lorraine Hansberry
was an American playwright and writer.
She was the first Black-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway.
Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation.
James Baldwin
was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.
His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 English-language novels.
Richard Wright
was an American author of novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.
Much of his literature concerns racial themes, especially related to the plight of Black Americans during the late 19th to mid 20th centuries suffering discrimination and violence.
Zora Neale Hurston
was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker.
She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou.
The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.
She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, an autobiography, ethnographies, and many essays.
James Weldon Johnson
was an American writer and civil rights activist.
He was married to civil rights activist Grace Nail Johnson.
Johnson was a leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started working in 1917.
Johnson established his reputation as a writer, and was known during the Harlem Renaissance for his poems, novel and anthologies collecting both poems and spirituals of Black culture.
He wrote the lyrics for "Lift Every Voice and Sing", which later became known as the Black National Anthem.
Grace Nail Johnson
was an Black American civil rights activist and patron of the arts associated with the Harlem Renaissance, and wife of the writer and politician James Weldon Johnson.
Johnson was the daughter of John Bennett Nail, a wealthy businessman and civil rights activist.
She is known for her involvement with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Heterodoxy Club, and many other Black American and feminist organizations.
Johnson also supported and promoted Black American children's literature.
Countee Cullen
was an American poet, novelist, children's writer, and playwright, particularly well known during the Harlem Renaissance.
Jessie R. Fauset
was an editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator.
Her literary work helped sculpt Black American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of Black American life and history.
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