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Harlem Renaissance
Jazz, migration, and the new Negro’s voice.
Step 1 · Home to Harlem
Home to Harlem
Claude McKay
Jake returns to Harlem’s jazz-age streets
Step 2 · Banjo
Banjo
Claude McKay
Sailors, music, and Black life in Marseille
Step 3 · Black No More
Black No More
George Schuyler
A satirical cure for race—and its cost
Step 4 · Silver Fleece
The Quest of the Silver Fleece
W. E. B. Du Bois
Du Bois’s romance of cotton and caste
Step 5 · Fire in the Flint
The Fire in the Flint
Walter White
A Black doctor confronts the Klan
Step 6 · Flight
Flight
Walter White
Passing, race, and a woman’s escape
Step 7 · Walls of Jericho
The Walls of Jericho
Rudolph Fisher
Harlem socialites and divided worlds