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Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to:
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Introduction
In this lesson, you will study two additional Harlem Renaissance writers. Claude McKay is a Jamaican-American writer. He had no official schooling when he was younger; however, in 1912, he came to the U.S. to attend Tuskegee Institute. James Weldon Johnson is an American author as well as educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Talk about a “Jack of all trades!”
Claude McKay
James Weldon
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"The world does not know that a people is great until that people produces great literature and art."
-- James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson said of Claude McKay, "There was among [the African American poets] a voice too powerful to be confined to the circle of race, a voice that carried further and made America in general aware; it was that Claude McKay."
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