All of the following were part of the literature and art of the 1920s "Harlem Renaissance" EXCEPT:

Langston Hughes was a leading Harlem Renaissance poet, while Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong were influential musicians associated with the era’s cultural scene. Thurgood Marshall was a lawyer and civil rights leader, not a Harlem Renaissance literary or artistic figure. Therefore, Marshall is the exception.

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