The Harlem Renaissance was an enormous artistic and social revolution that occurred between the years 1917 and 1935, marked the blossoming of African-American culture, and was an important springboard towards the civil rights movement. . In the early 1900s, Harlem, New York, became a hub and cultural center for African American scholars, poets, writers, musicians, and artists of all disciplines who fled the oppression and economic depression of the South to finding refuge in a place where they were truly free to express their talents and cultivate a new identity for their people, who would become known as "the new Negro." Some of these intellectual refugees were Langston Hughes, Alain LeRoy Locke, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, Gwendolyn Bennett, Sterling Brown, Anne Spencer, Countee Cullen; Some of America's greatest poets. While the vast majority of their poems chronicle the African American experience, each author's style, form, and message are unique and provoke a different response from the reader. Langston Hughes is one of the most recognized and prominent names associated with....