The Negro Renaissance, a period of extraordinary activity on the part of Black artists and extraordinary receptivity on the part of the white public, reached a peak in the twenties. Among the writers who contributed to the movement were Claude Mckay, "Harlem Shadows", 1922; Jean Toomer, "Cane", 1923; Alain Locke, The New Negro, 1925; Langston Hughes, "The Weary Blues", 1926 Countee Cullen, "Color", 1925.