CHAPTER II

THE PRESENT RENAISSANCE OF THE NEGRO 51

I. A Glance at the Field 51

II. Some Representatives of the Present Era 70

1. The Cotters, Father and Son 70

2. James David Corrothers 85

3. A Group of Singing Johnsons:

James Weldon Johnson 90

Charles Bertram Johnson 95

Fenton Johnson 99

Adolphus Johnson 104

4. William Stanley Braithwaite 105

5. George Reginald Margetson 109

6. William Moore 111

7. Joshua Henry Jones, Jr. 113

8. Walter Everette Hawkins 119

9. Claude McKay 126

10. Leslie Pinckney Hill 131