Harlem Renasissance

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…giving back to the African-American community. Locke advanced this idea further by applying the sentiment of racial pride to arts like writing, painting, poetry, song, dance, etc. which brought artists like Langston Hughes into the public sphere which in turn rose awareness to all of American society, Black and white, about the importance of racial pride. These three men all have contributed immensely to the increase of consciouness of racial pride during the Harlem Renaissance.