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BLACK HISTORY IN 2 MINUTES: HARLEM RENAISSANCE

From the Podcast series hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. See also episodes on Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Madam C.J. Walker and Jazz. 

FIGURES OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

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

LIBRARY CATALOG

Writer Zora Neale Hurston

Writer James Baldwin

Louis Armstrong

Trumpet Player & Singer Louis Armstrong

Leader & Writer W.E.B. DuBois

"Street Shadows" by Painter Jacob Lawrence

Singer Billie Holiday

Langston Hughes

Poet Langston Hughes

Claude McKay

Poet Claude McKay

DATABASES

The databases above are the most useful for this specific project. For our other databases, visit the library online databases. Need passwords? Email the library.

ARTS & LETTERS OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

I, TOO, SING AMERICA: THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE AT 100

(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.

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