Walter White helps Harlem Renaissance artists
By the time Walter White joined the NAACP in 1918 its two leading
African American figures, W.E.B. Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson, were
important men of letters as well as civil rights activists. The
Association therefore considered it part of their mission to promote the
African American arts during the flourishing of those arts during the
1920's and beyond. White did so by trying to network writers like Claude
McKay and Countee Cullen to publishers just as Du Bois used the Crisis
as an outlet for promising writers. White understood that marketing outlets were the key to gaining financial support, publicity and notoriety for black artists. He arrange for lyric tenor Roland Hayes to meet with critics and impresarios. White was therefore an important "middleman" for artists and writers during the Harlem Renaissance.
African American figures, W.E.B. Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson, were
important men of letters as well as civil rights activists. The
Association therefore considered it part of their mission to promote the
African American arts during the flourishing of those arts during the
1920's and beyond. White did so by trying to network writers like Claude
McKay and Countee Cullen to publishers just as Du Bois used the Crisis
as an outlet for promising writers. White understood that marketing outlets were the key to gaining financial support, publicity and notoriety for black artists. He arrange for lyric tenor Roland Hayes to meet with critics and impresarios. White was therefore an important "middleman" for artists and writers during the Harlem Renaissance.
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