Poets
Langston Hughes ● Claude McKay ● Arna Wendell Bontemps ● Marcus Garvey ● Countee Cullen ● James Weldon Johnson ● Georgia Douglas Johnson ● Sterling Brown ● Gwendolyn Brooks ● Angelina Weld ● Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Visual Artists
Aaron Douglas ● Lois Mailou Jones ● Laura Wheeler Waring ● Charles Alston ● Meta Fuller ● Archibald Motley ● Augusta Savage ● Jacob Lawrence ● Palmer C. Hayden ● William Johnson ● James Van Der Zee
Musicians
Fletcher Henderson ● Earl "Fatha" Hines ● Cab Calloway ● James P. Johnson ● Dizzy Gillespie ● Thelonious Monk ● Count Basie ● "Jelly Roll" Morton ● King Oliver ● Charlie Parker ● Art Tatum ● Fats Waller
Writers
Alain LeRoy Locke ● Zora Neale Hurston ● Arna Bontemps ● Dorothy West ● Rudolph Fisher ● W.E.B. Du Bois ● Georgia Douglas Johnson ● Nella Larsen ● Jessie Redmon Fauset ● James Weldon Johnson ● Jean Toomer ● James Baldwin ● Countee Cullen ● Jessie Redmon Fauset ● George Schuyler ● Gwendolyn B. Bennett ● Langston Hughes ● Walter White ● A. Philip Randolph ● Wallace Thurman ● Chandler Owen
Singers
Ella Fitzgerald ● Adelaide Hall ● Lottie Gee ● Cab Calloway ● Ethel Waters ● Avon Long ● Aida Ward ● Edith Wilson ● Ma Rainey ● Bessie Smith ● Louis Armstrong ● Paul Robeson ● Josephine Baker ● Fats Waller ● Billie Holiday ● Lena Horne
Dancers
Josephine Baker ● Bill "Bo jangles" Robinson ● George Snowden ● Herbert White ● Earl "Snakehips" Tucker ● Mildred Dixon ● Florence Mills ● The Nicholas Brothers ● Stepin Fetchit ● Butterbeans and Suzy ● Evelyn Welch
Leaders
Marcus Garvey ● Oscar DePriest ● A. Philip Randolph ● L.S. Alexander Gumby ● Madam C.J. Walker ● Alain LeRoy Locke ● W.E.B. Du Bois ● Walter White ● James Weldon Johnson
Writer Zora Neale Hurston
Writer James Baldwin
Trumpet Player & Singer Louis Armstrong
Leader & Writer W.E.B. DuBois
"Street Shadows" by Painter Jacob Lawrence
Singer Billie Holiday
Poet Langston Hughes
Poet Claude McKay
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(5:28) Guest Curator and author Wil Haygood talks about the Harlem Renaissance and the I, Too, Sing America exhibition at Columbus Museum of Art, October 19, 2018 - January 20, 2019.