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Claude McKay contributed to the Harlem Renaissance in his writings and works about life in Harlem.
By the end of World War I the fiction of James Weldon Johnson and the poetry of Claude McKay anticipated the literature that would follow in the 1920s by describing the reality of black life in America and the struggle for racial identity. In the early 1920s three works signaled the new creative energy in African American literature. McKay’s volume of poetry, Harlem Shadows (1922), became one of the first works by a black writer to be published by a mainstream, national publisher (Harcourt, Brace and Company). From http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_7615...
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It began in 1918 with the publication of Claude McKay’s “Harlem Dancer" book of poetry. This gave the African-American community the start of a positive self-image.
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