Author: Rollin Lynde Hartt

Place and Time: January 1921

Prior Knowledge: The New Negro was a book written in the 1920's and the New Negro Movement was another term for the Harlem Renaissance.

Audience: Americans, of all races

Reason: His reason is to point out the facts about the racists attitudes in America and how blacks have been responding to them.

The Main Idea:  Rascism is a national problem and people should speak out against it.