However, it also depended on the patronage of white Americans, such as Carl Van Vechten and Charlotte Osgood Mason, who provided various forms of assistance, opening doors which otherwise might have remained closed to the publication of work outside the black American community.
Rovnako však bola závislá na patronáte belochov, ako bol Carl Van Vechten a Charlotte Osgood Masonová, ktorí poskytli rôzne spôsoby pomoci a otvárali dvere, ktoré by za normálnych okolností zostali publikáciám černošskej komunity uzavreté.