BLACK TEENS

Nella Larsen

Nella Larsen was an American novelist and short story writer famously associated with the Harlem Renaissance era, which one writer has called "an era of extraordinary acheivement in black American art and literature areas during the 1920's and 1930's." Nella Larsen's appearance was much like that of Homer Plessy, a civil rights activist, who was seven eights white and one eights black. Plessy believed that he should be entitled to all the rights and privileges of a white citizen.