Meet Claude McKay
Claude McKay was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. His work ranged from vernacular verse celebrating peasant life in Jamaica to poems that protested racial and economic inequities. Visit https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/claude-mckay
Meet Georgia Johnson
Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp Johnson, better known as Georgia Douglas Johnson, was an African-American poet, one of the earliest African-American female playwrights, and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Visit https://blackkudos.tumblr.com/post/618300116703576064/georgia-douglas-johnson
Meet Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the most highly regarded, influential, and widely read poets of 20th-century American poetry, with the distinction of being the first Black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. Visit https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gwendolyn-brooks
Meet James W. Johnson
James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He distinguished himself equally as a man of letters and as a civil rights leader in the early decades of the 20th century. A talented poet and novelist, Johnson brought a high standard of artistry and realism to Black literature. Visit https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/james-weldon-johnson
Meet Alice Walker
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she published the novel The Color Purple, for which she won the National Book Award for hardcover fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. An avowed feminist, Walker coined the term womanist to mean “A black feminist or feminist of color” in 1983. Visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Walker
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