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By Daniel Anderson
even if the black intelligentsia principally disregarded the recognition of activities, the clicking celebrated athletics as a method to take part within the debates of the day. a number of favourite writers, resembling Claude McKay and James Weldon Johnson, used activities in specific how you can speak their imaginative and prescient of the Renaissance. in the meantime, the writers of the Harlem press promoted activities with neighborhood recognition, insightful research and a playful love of language, and argued for his or her value within the struggle for racial equality.
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