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Langston Hughes's great poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is published in Crisis.
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The first major book of the Harlem Renaissance appears when Claude McKay's novel Harlem Shadows is published by Harcourt, Brace.
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The publication of Jessie Redmon Fauset's There Is Confusion marks the first Harlem Renaissance book by a woman writer.
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Countee Cullen's first volume of poetry, Color, is published.
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Langston Hughes's first volume of poetry, "The Weary Blues", is published.
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Langston Hughes's novel Not Without Laughter is published.