Jean Toomer

African American Literature and the Harlem Renaissance

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on April 29, 2025

The early post–Civil War promise of equal protection and increased civil rights for African Americans was eviscerated by decades of Jim Crow laws, culminating in the 1896 Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson that sanctioned legalized racial segregation. This… Read More ›

Harlem Renaissance

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on July 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

Between 1919 and 1934 African-American artists flocked to New York City, specifically to Harlem. This era was to become one of the most prolific periods of African-American writing. What Alain Locke called in 1925 a “New Negro Movement” was later… Read More ›