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In this letter Verna Arvey thanks Alain Locke for an autograph copy of
The Negro in the Caribbean. She also informs him that Stokowski
has decided to perform Troubled Island this season in New
York. In her p.s., she voices one of the most basic goals of the
Harlem Renaissance: to show the rest of the world that African
Americans were capable of many things considered by some out of their
reach. The participants in the Renaissance felt that prejudice and
racism could be removed if they could show that African Americans were
cultured, thinkers, strivers, and doers. They saw the writing of
novels, plays, poetry, opera and symphonies as a way to bridge the gap
between the races.
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