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Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance Poets consist of: James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Jean (Eugene) Toomer, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, and Gwendolyn Brooks. These eight poets contributed to modern day poetry in three ways. One: they all wrote marvelous poems that inspired our poets of modern times. Two: they contributed to literature to let us know what went on in there times, and how much we now have changed. And last but not least they all have written poems that people can sit down and relate to and what people are writing about and take time out to let the people of their families know that they were living in those times. And these people should receive such recognition because of the effort, and the time that was put fourth to doing this great work for the people of their generation and ours.
James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Claude Mckay, Jean (Eugene) Tommer, Langston

Hughes, Sterling Brown, Robert Hayden, and Gwendolyn Brooks, again, all were very excellent

Poets who took pride I n what they did, for the people they did it for and for themselves.

To be exact, he Harlem Renaissance is a time after the KKK completed their raid of

African Americans, when all of the Blacks would get together and have a good time.

Whether it was listening to the jazz band play background of a beautiful vocalist, as the

people of Harlem danced the night away, or looking at "freestyle" artist paint away.

Harlem way always occupied. Each poet wrote very many famous poem that we now

read today.

What started the renaissance was when the KKK finished the raid in which ended in the early 1900's, because blacks were being terrorized by white just because of the color of their skin. Eventually the Blacks overcame the racism, although the name calling was still going on the blacks had a good time in spite of the racism, which then became know as the "Harlem Renaissance." These poets became known as Harlem Renaissance...