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Story Behind The People Who Started The Harlem Renaissance

L: Langston Hughes, R: Jessie FausetPhoto: Getty On March 21, 1924, a group of Black and white artists and intellectuals got together at New York’s Civic Club for a dinner party to celebrate author Jessie R. Fauset’s debut novel, “There is Confusion.” Organizers Charles S. Johnson and Alain Locke thought bringing these brilliant minds together […]

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Story Behind The People and Event That Started The Harlem Renaissance

L: Langston Hughes, R: Jessie FausetPhoto: Getty On March 21, 1924, a group of Black and white artists and intellectuals got together at New York’s Civic Club for a dinner party to celebrate author Jessie R. Fauset’s debut novel, “There is Confusion.” Organizers Charles S. Johnson and Alain Locke thought bringing these brilliant minds together […]

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