The onset of the 20th Century gave rise to a new cadre of African American Authors embodied in the great literry movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. 1903-W.E.B. Du Bois Pens The Souls of Black Folk 1912-James Weldon Johnson, Writes About Black Identity 1919-Alain LeRoy Locke, Architect of the Harlem Renaissance 1921- The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes 1924-Alice Dunbar Nelson, Interpreter of Black Culture