Jazz:The 1920s saw the continuation of African American migration out of the American South. As African Americans moved north, they brought with them a culture born of their experiences navigating an often unfair society based on social norms for which they possessed little ability to change. African Americans in the South developed complex ways of dealing with their secondary status, from cautious acquiescence to outright defiance. Out of these cultural navigations came jazz, America’s first authentic art form.
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Within 10 years of arriving in Harlem he had many employments such as ghost
writer, a publisher, an editor and a writer of novels, plays and articles. He
became editor of The Messenger, a socialist journal aimed at blacks. He
became the first to publish the adult-themed stories of Langston Hughes. Thurman
left The Messenger to become editor of a white-owned magazine World
tomorrow. He collaborated in publishing literary magazine Fire” a
devotion to the younger negro artists.” It was a collaboration with Langston
Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Bruce Nugent, Aaron Douglas and Gwendolyn B.
Bennett. With only one issue ever published , Fire challenged the ideas
of W.E.B Du Bois and many African American bourgeoisie who believed that black
art should serve as propaganda for social equality and racial integration.
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Writers: (Wallace Thurman)
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