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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Claude McKay | Born and educated in rural Jamaica |
| Langston Hughes | Worked as a hotel busboy in Washington, D.C. and left three poems near the plate of Vachel Lindsay |
| Countee Cullen | Verse of this poet showed the influence of English Romantic poetry and echoed the struggle and violence of times |
| Countee Cullen | Inspired by the powerful rhythms of African American preachers |
| Claude McKay | Wrote a poem considered as the spark that ignited the Harlem Renaissance |
| Countee Cullen | Wrote poems in highly structured European forms |
| Zora Neale Hurston | A folklorist and anthropologist, this author used material collected for fiction writing. |
| Langston Hughes | Considered the poet laureate of Harlem |
| Claude McKay | Looked for ways to counter the ''ignoble cruelty'' of racism through poetry |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Remembered for the ability to capture the rich traditions and poetic speech of southern African American Culture |
| James Weldon Johnson | First lawyer admitted to the Florida bar and leader of the NAACP |
| Claude McKay | Most esteemed poet of the Harlem Renaissance |
| Zora Neale Hurston | Died in a Florida welfare home and was buried in a pauper's grave |
| James Weldon Johnson | Wrote hit songs for Broadway musicals and the stage with his brother |
| Langston Hughes | Writing celebrated the dignity of ordinary working class African Americans |
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