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Gwendolyn Brooks
Around 1967, Gwendolyn Brooks became more political in her writing. She wanted to show the experiences and mistreatment of black Americans. In “of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery” Brooks describes the passing of a black boy. She described a very simple individual, who participated in quite average pastimes: “Drive him past…
Harlem Renaissance Representation
Langston Hughes wrote, that a young black poet said, “I want to be a poet—not a Negro poet.” He continues, explaining that, “this is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America—this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization,…
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