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Triumphs and Hardships of the Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance played a major role in Black History, as well as in American History as a whole. During this period blacks were realizing their potentials as writers, artists, and other social and intellectual figures. It was a great time for blacks, but many hardships accompanied their triumphs. Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston took great steps as black writers and many other blacks were successful as Jazz musicians and baseball players. The darkness of the Harlem Renaissance was dominated by the Ku Klux Klan.
Langston Hughes was very concerned with the role of Black Americans in the white society. In his poem Mother to Son, a black mother urges her son to keep going on, despite the hardships. She pushes him by saying, "So boy, don't you turn your back./ Don't you set down on the steps/ ‘Cause you finds it's kinder hard./ Don't you fall now-/ For, I'se still goin', honey,/ I'se still climbin."......

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