Claude McKay

Anyways for example did you know Langston Hughes and Claude McKay,Countee Cullen and Arna Bontemps, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Toomer, Walter White, and James Weldon Johnson.When people that played or made music like the people in the list when they danced there would be interacial couples there and all types…

American descendants about their history and their heritage. Jessie Fauset's contribution during the Harlem Renaissance helped influence and encourage many African American literary artists on the rise such as Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, and Claude Mckay. She is known as an “essayist, poet, and novelist.” Her published works that she is known for are: There is Confusion (1924), Plum Bun (1928), The Chinaberry Tree (1931), and Comedy: American Style (1933). Her purpose focused moreless on the…

Embracing Human Rights: All of the human race should have the ability to enjoy their rights freely. Many colored people were robbed of their rights. Their opinions were ignored and they didn’t get any rights to do a countless number of things freely. People of color had to fight to be able to enjoy their rights. All humanity deserves to enjoy their freedoms, rights, and opinions. One theme to summarize the events that took place during the Great Depression is that all humanity deserves to enjoy…

doesn’t open up this issue through discussing the conformity that American culture creates, but rather just a clash of cultures in general. As writer and instructor at Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, Illinois David Kelly puts it, “Although McKay does not describe the urban New York landscape in detail, we can imagine the harsh contrast of what the speaker sees looking through his downtown apartment window and what the exotic fruit reminds him of: “trees laden by low-singing rills, / And…

The 1920’s, commonly known as the roaring 20’s, was a time of rapid change. With the workweek shorten to 5 days a week and the average minimum wage rising, people now had the time and the money to do other things. Entertainment became a big part of every American life. It did matter if they were seeking Jazz, Blues, Drama or a good read, entertainment was around every corner. African American during this time began fleeing to the North in belief that they will find acceptance and employment.…

3 The Jazz age or roaring twenties influenced the moral traditions of women greatly. Women start to cut their hair short,, smoked cigarettes, involved themselves in alcohol liquor, stared putting on make up and dresses and short skirt. These cultures of women still continue to survived up to present day today. Women wear mini skirts, go to parties, indulge themselves in smoke cigarettes and alcohol even in front of their kids. I believe women wanted to show that they are equal to men and…

African American community. They were escaping the oppression of the American South for a place where they could gather and let their creativity free. Some of the major names that were a part of the Renaissance included Langston Hughes (poet), Claude McKay (writer/poet), Zora Neale Hurston (novelist) and many more. The Harlem Renaissance wasn't just a gathering of intellectuals it was a symbol of black pride in an otherwise depressive society for them. The black community wanted more political…

The American Dream is the past. It is not an important aspect in society today. From the poem America by Claude McKay, the poem speaks of how America really is, a nightmare. “Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!” (McKay 14). America takes everything that people give and give nothing in return has people struggling to make ends meet. They still…

Migration Influenced African Americans to bring out cultural pride. African American culture was reborn in the Harlem Renaissance. The musician’s, artiste, and poets were all influenced by the jazz, and the need for a form and individual rights for African Americans. The African American people believed that the power of the Great Migration brought along the artistic explosion. Black people move from southern states to northern states to find a way out of poverty. They always looked for a way…

The “Great Migration” led more than six million African Americans to large cities in the north looking for better jobs and racial equality. African Americans desperately wanted to prove their intellect and artistic abilities in direct contrast of the mockery that was prevalent during this time in history. In commercials, fiction, theater, and political, civil arguments, white Americans experienced pictures of blacks as uninformed jokesters and overlooked the extreme issues confronting black…