Publishing his own work after the death of the popular Negro poet Paul Laurence Dunbar in 1906 and before the emergence of the new Negro voices of Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, and Cou...
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In his celebration of African and Afro-American life, Fenton Johnson is a forerunner of the Harlem Renaissance. One of the first revolutionary black American poets, Johnson has been hailed as "the for...
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Fenton Johnson