The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry.

The Wikipedia page for African American provides a comprehensive overview of African Americans, who are Americans with predominantly African ancestry.

The Wikipedia page on the American Civil War provides a comprehensive overview of the war that took place in the United States between 1861 and 1865.

The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the oldest and most renowned art museums in the United States.

The Bancroft Library is the primary special-collections library of the University of California, Berkeley.

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The Great Migration was a significant movement of African Americans from the rural Southern United States to the urban North, Midwest, and West between 1916 and 1970.

Langston Hughes was an American writer and social activist who played a vital role in the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural movement of the 1920s and 1930s that sought to celebrate the African American experience.