The Harlem Renaissance (the early 1900's)
The Harlem Renaissance began to build with the publishing of a magazine. This magazine was known as Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life. The magazine's editor, Charles S. Johnson, began to publish in magazines pieces that hopeful and promising African American writers. Then in 1924, Johnson organized the first Civic Club dinner, being successful it exposed the talents of many artists, including, Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. This a few other artists such as Arna Bontemps, Claude McKay, Paul Robeson, and James Weldon Johnson.