Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Jean Toomer, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Charles W. Chesnutt, Rudolph Fisher, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Henrik Clarke, Ralph Ellison, Alice Childress, Frank Yerby, Dorothy West, Willard Motley, Katherine Dunham, John Oliver Killens, Eric Walrond, Cyrus Colter, Ted Poston, Alston Anderson, Chester B. Hines, Owen Dobson, Arna Bontempts