The New Negro
American literary anthology
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African American literature
- In African American literature: The Harlem Renaissance
…of the 1920s, epitomized in The New Negro (1925), an anthology edited by writer and educator Alain Locke that featured the early work of some of the most gifted Harlem Renaissance writers, including the poets Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay and the novelists Rudolph Fisher, Zora Neale
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Harlem Renaissance
- In African Americans: The Garvey movement and the Harlem Renaissance
…American philosopher Alain Locke in The New Negro, published in 1925, and by African American historian Carter G. Woodson, founder of the Association for the Study of Negro (now African American) Life and History and editor of the Journal of Negro History.
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