Summary Of The Harlem Intelligentsia

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The Harlem Intelligentsia is about McKay time in America as the Assistant editor of The Liberator and meeting NAACP’s members. How this came about is when his boss, Hubert Harrison, wanted more black activities in the Negro radical movement. Eager for such an opportunity, McKay gather many well know Negro activists of artists and non-artists to expand Garvey’s United Negro Improvement Association. McKay obtains many stories, such as, learning about W.E.B DuBois’ “cold, acid hauteur of spirit in person. (158)” However, there remain one that gave him an odd feeling. Walter White, the current secretary of the NAACP, he told him the time riding a train to investigate a lynching. He was approached by a white man who tells him that he could tell