African American writers

Jean Toomer was an African American writer. He was known as the leading American writer of the 1920s after he established his book "Cane" which inspired authors of the Harlem Renaissance. Jean Toomer was born on December 26, 1894 as Nathan Pinchback Toomer. His mother was the governor of Louisiana during Reconstruction and the first U.S. governor of African American descent (Jones 1). In 1985, Toomer's father abandoned him and his mother. He forced them to live with his mother cruel father in

Langston Hughes, an African American writer who interpreted to the world the black experience in the US and portrayed them with skill and insight, was born February 1st, 1902 into the home of the couple James and Carrie Hughes. Hughes ' mother attended college and had an artistic temperament. James Nathanial Hughes was a prosperous lawyer and rancher in Mexico who disliked the black poor and hated Negroes. On April 30, 1899, in Guthrie, Oklahoma, him and his wife Carrie were married and were pregnant

In their novels, many African American writers examine the conditions African American men and women live in as well as the choices they make as a result of their environment. In Native Son by Richard Wright, Bigger lives in an impoverished community and survives by committing robbery along with his friends. When Bigger gets, a job working for a rich white family, he accidentally murders his employer’s daughter and tries to cover his tracks. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison tells the story of a black

Lorraine Hansberry is an African American play writer who wrote the play “A Raisin in the Sun.” The Play highlights the lives of a lower-class Black American family in the 1950s living under racial segregation and oppression in Chicago. The title of the play was inspired from the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes. The poem questions “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?” (Hansberry, 2013, p. 976). The protagonist, Walter Lee Younger, struggles internally with

20, 1895 was an African-American social activist, abolitionist, orator, writer, and political leader. After evading from vassalage in Maryland, he became a public driver of the abolitionist motion from Massachusetts and New York, convenient character for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. In his time he was described by abolitionists as a living contrasted-specimen to slaveholders ' arguments that captive lacked the mental capacity to act as independent American citizens. Northerners

1895 was an African-American social activist, abolitionist, orator, writer, and political leader. After evade from vassalage in Maryland, he became a public driver of the abolitionist motion from Massachusetts and New York, convenient character for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writings. In his time he was described by abolitionists as a living contrasted-specimen to slaveholders ' arguments that captive lacked the mental capacity to activity as independent American citizens. Northerners

Being African-American and a writer was rare to say back then since many people viewed African-Americans as uneducated and illiterate. Till this day many people still see African-Americans as less competent than any other person from a different race. Throughout history we’ve seen many accomplishments from African-Americans, either it being in sports or in the educational field. I’ve never doubted African-Americans on their capacity on what they can and cannot do. African-Americans have broken many

William Edward Burgardt was an African-American leading sociologist, writer, and activist (Staff, 2009). He was educated at Harvard University, as well as, other top schools (Staff, 2009). William studied with some of the best social thinkers of his time (Staff, 2009). He rose to fame with his publication of such works as Souls Black Folk that was created in 1903 (Staff, 2009). Furthermore, he was one of the founders for the NAACP, or the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

I attended the "Fathering Word: The Making of an African American Writer" lecture by E. Ethelbert Miller, Miller is an advocate for the arts and a Howard University graduate. Miller started his lecture by saying that being an author was a lonely job, but it was worth it because he enjoyed getting the opportunity to attend events all over the country and meeting the many audience members. Miller says that literature takes you behind the scenes, for example, he talked about how in reality his father

Jacqueline Bacon, African American writer, quoted Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm in her essay Freedom’s Journal, The First African-American Newspaper: “ We wish to plead our own cause. Too long have others spoken for us” (Brown 13). This quote gave slaves a sense of empowerment to stand up for themselves and no longer be property, but people. The Freedom Journal is the first African American newspaper that was published in March 16, 1827 in New York City by free black men Samuel Cornish and John