The 1920's were the years of Manhattan's black Renaissance, It began with Shuffle Along, Running Wild, and the Charleston. Perhaps some people would say even with The Emperor Jones, Charles Gilpin, and the tom-toms at the Provincetown. Harlem was like a great magnet for the Negro intellectual, pulling him from everywhere. One of the most talented of the Negro writers, Jean Toomer, went to Paris to become a follower and disciple of Gurdjieff's at Fontainebleau, where Katherine Mansfield died. In those days of the late 1920's, there were a great many parties, in Harlem and out, to which various members of the New Negro group were invited. Downtown there were many interesting parties in those days, too, to which author was sometimes bidden. Countee Cullen's poem "Incident" captures with great power the meaning of nigger for most black Americans—except that that meaning extends far beyond the child world, as the poem indicates.