Hudson Libertion Bowl - Black Writers

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artistic/literary movement of 1920's-40's

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Harlem Renaissance

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wrote "Native Son" and "Black Boy"

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Richard Wright

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wrote "Invisible Man" 1951

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Ralph Ellison

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wrote "Go Tell It On The Mountain"

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James Baldwin

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wrote play "A Raisin In The Sun" 1959

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Lorraine Hansberry

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wrote "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings"

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Maya Angelo

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wrote "Souls of Black Folk" 1903

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W.E.B. DuBois

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wrote "Lift Every Voice and Sing" aka the Black National Anthem in 1900; and autobiography of an Ex-colored man

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James Weldon Johnson

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co-wrote autobiography of Malcolm X 1965; wrote Roots 1976 and Queen

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Alex Haley

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Harlem Renaissance poet, novelist; essayist; wrote Negro Speaks of Rivers; created character Jesse B Simple

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Langston Hughes