The Harlem Renaissance:
Literature of the Time
     The Harlem Renaissance emerged during a time of political unrest for the entire country and for black Americans. There was a lack of racial progress under the Progressives. Although the Harlem Renaissance was not a political movement, the literature of the time was a response to the political environment of African Americans. Writers during the Harlem Renaissance used their personal feelings and creativity to express the views of Blacks during the Twenties.

Year-by-Year Publication of Major Works of the Harlem Renaissance
Year Author Book
1922 James Weldon Johnson (ed.) The Book of American Negro Poetry
  Claude McKay Harlem Shadows
1923 Jean Toomer Cane
1924 Jessie Fauset There is Confusion
  Walter White The Fire in the Flit
1925 Countee Cullen Color
  Alain Locke (ed.) The New Negro
1926 Langston Hughes The Weary Blues
  Eric Waldron Tropic Death
  Walter White Flight
  Carl Van Vechten Nigger Heaven
  James Weldon Johnson (ed.) The Book of American Negro Spirituals
1927 Countee Cullen Copper Sun
  Countee Cullen Ballad of the Brown Girl
  Countee Cullen (ed.) Caroling Dusk
  Langston Hughes The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
  James Weldon Johnson God's Trombones
  James Weldon Johnson (ed.) The Second Book of American Negro Spirituals
  Charles S. Johnson (ed.) Ebony and Topaz
1928 W.E.B. DuBois Dark Princess
  Rudolph Fisher The Walls of Jericho
  James Weldon Johnson Fifty Years, and Other Poems
  Nella Larsen Quicksand
  Claude McKay Home to Harlem
1929 Countee Cullen The Black Christ, and Other Poems
  Jesie Fauset Plum Bun
  Walter White Rope and Faggot
  Nella Larsen Passing
  Claude McKay Banjo
  Wallace Thurman The Blacker the Berry
1930 Langston Hughes Not Without Laughter
  James Weldon Johnson Black Manhattan
  James Weldon Johnson St. Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day
1931 Arna Bontemps God Sends Sunday
  Jessie Fauset The Chinaberry Tree
  James Weldon Johnson (ed.) The Book of American Negro Poetry (revised Edition)
1932 Sterling Brown Southern Road
  Langston Hughes The Dream Keeper and Other Poems
  Claude McKay Gingertown
  Countee Cullen One Way to Heaven
  Wallace Thurman Infants of the Spring
1933 Jessie Fauset Comedy: American Style
  James Weldon Johnson Along the Way
  Claude McKay Banana Bottom
1934 Langston Hughes The Ways of White Folks
  Zora Neale Hurston Jonah's Guard Vine
1935 Countee Cullen The Medea and Some Poems
  Zora Neale Hurston Mules and Men
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