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Historian James Truslow Adams often receives credit for first popularizing the idea of the American dream.
The Harlem Renaissance ushered in a time of many renewed firsts for African Americans in publishing: Langston Hughes, a central figure of the movement, published his first poem, âThe Negro Speaks of Rivers,â in the June 1921 of The Crisis; two years later, Jean Toomerâs Cane was the first book of fiction (though it is more accurate to deem it a hybrid text, as it also contains dramatic dialogue and poetry) by an African American writer to appear from a New York publisher since Charles ...