Word: hurston
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Courier (famed Negro Weekly) read last week an article by Author Langston Hughes, bitterly assailing those members of his race whom he considers a pale reflection of white civilization. Meeting upper-level Negroes of Washington, D. C., Mr. Hughes found them critical of Jean Toomer, Rudolph Fisher and Zora Hurston, Negro novelists, of many another Negro author who has written realistic, often tragic narratives of the Negro masses. "Why doesn't Jean Toomer write about nice people?" asked the Washingtonians. Why didn't Rudolph Fisher's City of Refuge* deal with "decent folks"? And they objected to Negro Artist Winold...