Authors

Zora Neal Hurston - //Their Eyes Were Watching God// 1937

-(1891- January 28, 1960) -Was an African-American foklorist and author of the Harlem Renaissance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston

Langston Hughes - "The Nigger Speaks of Rivers" "A Dream Deferred"

-Published more than three dozen books in his life. -He started with poetry and progressed to novels and plays. -Wrote poetry, books, and articles through the 60s -Wrote about the lives of “ordinary black people” – earned him a reputation as a major black voice of the 1900s.

http://who2.com/ask/langstonhughes.html

W.E. B. Du Bois - //-The Souls of Black Folk// (1903)

-Name: William Edward Burghardt DuBois -Scholar and political activist -First African American to receive doctorate from Harvard University -Helped found NAACP in 1909 -Favored separatism over integration -Strong public voice of the 1900s

http://who2.com/ask/webdubois.html

James Weldon Johnson – //Tolosa// //Negro Americans, What Now//// // - (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) - Leading African America poet, early civil rights activist - Graduated Atlanta University (1896) - He was the first African American accepted to the Florida bar. - Secretary of the NAACP - //The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man// (1912)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Weldon_Johnson