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Volume D MODERN PERIOD, 19101945 Volume D-1 (Library of Congress) Clifford Odets This May Day (1910) parade shows socialism taking root in America as industrialism expanded and well before Clifford Odets play dramatizing the 1930s rationale for socialism, Waiting for Lefty (1935). Volume D-2

This special Harlem issue of Survey Graphic (1925) resulted in Alain Lockes anthology called The New Negro (1925), which in turn launched the New Negro Renaissance of the arts, including writing, sometimes called the Harlem Renaissance. (Survey Graphic 1925)

Harlem Renaissance Volume D-3 Claude McKay During the decade of this Ku Klux Klan parade in Washington, D. C. (1926), African Americans demonstrated and lobbied hard for antilynching laws. Poetry too registered protests in, for example, Claude McKays If We Must Die and Lynching.

Volume D-4 Extreme differences in the distribution of wealth were glaring to some, natural to others. Langston Hughes makes those differences glaring in Come to the Waldorf Astoria, as Reginald Marsh does in this painting, Unemployed. (Library of Congress)

Langston Hughes Volume D-5 Like Walker Evanss photograph of a young harvester in Pennsylvania, Tillie Olsens I Want You People Up North To Know puts a personal face on the fate of the Depression poor. In the poem, Latina women sewing by hand in Texas under horrendous

conditions for little pay speak to the women up north who buy their goods. (Library of Congress) Tillie Olsen Volume D-6 Dorothea Lange photographed Dust Bowl migrants; John Steinbeck put into words their reasons

for setting out on the road west in The Grapes of Wrath. (Library of Congress) John Steinbeck Volume D-7