Afro-American Women Writers: The New Negro Movement 1924-1933: Ann Allen Shockley

Black women writers became more prominent with the rise of the New Negro Movement, an epoch Alain Locke described as a "spiritual coming of age" in his The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925). Locke rejoiced to see blacks "rising above the past levels of inferiority in living, thinking and being," as evidenced in their burgeoning art, literature, music, and history.