The New Negro on Clubhouse

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History repeats itself. It’s the roaring 20s all over again. “New Negro" is a term popularized during the Harlem Renaissance implying a more outspoken advocacy of dignity and a refusal to submit quietly to the practices and laws of Jim Crow racial segregation. The term "New Negro" was made popular by Alain LeRoy Locke in his anthology The New Negro. Arguing that genuine social justice was predicated on the open participation of all, the New Negro fashioned a program of reform that drew on Black racial identity to frame their vision of class consciousness and, in so doing, planted the roots of an independent strain of Black radicalism that was not intellectually beholden to whites. [Pictured: labor unionist A. Philip Randolph]