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18. Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946.

Color / by Countee Cullen.1st ed. (New York ; London : Harper & Brothers, 1925)

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This was the first volume of verse published by a black American. Many of the poems deal with problems of race, and the book was greeted with universal acclaim. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Cullen was generally considered the leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance.

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