An outline of American literature summary

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Chapter 15. The Twentieth-Century Black writers

Chapter 16. Drama

Chapter 17. Popular Fiction

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Chapter 15. The Twentieth-Century Black writers

Americans for their human and social rights issues are important in twentieth-century. In 1863, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln had ended the slavery of blacks. But their position in American society remained very bad. In the South especially, government laws were used to keep black Americans in a low social position. There was also a powerful organization called the Ku Klux Klan which often used violence against blacks. In literature, this struggle began with The Soul of Black Folk (1903) by W. E. B. Du Bois. This book is a work of sociology, rather than of fiction. It describes the effects of white American racial prejudice on the minds of blacks. The best writers in the Harlem Renaissance were able to create works of high

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