Literature+by+black+Americans+in+the+1950s

**__ Literature By Black Americans in the 1950’s __** ===** African American literature was produced in the United States by writers of African descent. The 1950’s became one of the most predominant time periods of Black American literature after World War II, this was known as the Civil Rights Movement era, The time period where large numbers of African Americans began migrating here during World War II. During this Migration period, African Americans left the South and settled in the north, In cities such as Chicago, where they could easily find work in factories being less subjected to racism until the American Civil Rights movement came into effect which also influenced Black writers during the '50s and '60s to incorporate the issues of equality and ending segregation and racism in their writings. ** ===  "African-American literature." //www.Wikipedia.com //. Wikipedia.org, 30 December 2011. Web. 1/11/2012. . ===** One of the first writers to do this was James Baldwin, an African American writer who addressed issues of race and sexuality in his work. Baldwin, was best known for his novel “ //Go Tell It on the Mountain//.” He main wrote about deep personal struggles being born both black and homosexual at a time when neither were accepted in society by American culture. Baldwin wrote around 20 books, including classics such as “ //Another Country”// and “ //The Fire Next Time//.”Baldwin's idol and good friend was an author by the name of Richard Wright, whom Baldwin often referred to as "the greatest Black writer in the world". Wright is well known for his novel “ //Native Son//“ which tells the story of a Black man in search of acceptance in Chicago. Baldwin was so deeply inspired by Richard Wright’s novel that he titled a small collection of his own essays “ //Notes of a Native Son”//, in reference to Wright's novel. ** === "African-American literature." //www.Wikipedia.com //. Wikipedia.org, 30 December 2011. Web. 1/11/2012. .

===** Another great novelist of this time period was Ralph Ellison, who was best known for his novel “ Invisible //Man”// published in 1952, which also won the National Book Award in 1953 and though he did not publish another novel after “ Invisible Man” he still made his mark in literary history. In fact a few years fallowing his death in 1994 a second novel “ //Juneteenth”// which was pieced together from about 2,000 or more pages he had written over a 40 year time span. The Civil Rights time period was also well known for its female Black poets as well. One example would be Gwendolyn Brooks, who became the first African American women to win the Pulitzer Prize awarded to her for her 1949 book of poetry, Annie Allen. ** === "African-American literature." //www.Wikipedia.com //. Wikipedia.org, 30 December 2011. Web. 1/11/2012. <http:// http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_literature>.

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