Answer: In the spring of 1859, John Brown rented a farmhouse, known as the Kennedy Farmhouse, just outside of Harpers Ferry. He gave a false name to the neighbors, who would have recognized him as the violent abolitionist from out west. ... They knew that to raid Harpers Ferry was to approach a certain death.
Walter white, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and James Weldon Johnson were all famous 1920 African American representatives of a prominent literary movement of the 1920s - Harlem Rennaissance.