The Harlem Renaissance

By Shell Lei
  • Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. (The Fields of France)

    Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr. (The Fields of France)

    Playwrite
  • Charles Sidney Gilpin

    Charles Sidney Gilpin

    Actor debuting in John Drinkwater’s Abraham Lincoln, his career spanning the 1920'
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    Harlem Renaissance

    At the time the Harlem Renaissance was known as the new negro movement, named after an anthology by Alain Locke published in 1925. Though it was centered around the Harlem neighborhood of NYC, many French-speaking black writers from African and Carribean colonies who lived in Paris were also influenced. This time period gave life to African American writing, art, and music.
  • Angelina Weld Grimke

    Angelina Weld Grimke

    Playwrite (Rachel), Poet (The eyes of my regret, at april, and trees), teacher, and journalist.
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    Black Swan Records

    Black Swan Records is a United States record label founded in 1921 in Harlem, New York. It was the first widely distributed label to be owned and operated by, and marketed to, African Americans. The label name was revived in the 1990s for compact disc reissues of historic jazz and blues recordings.
  • Cane by Jean Toomer

    Cane by Jean Toomer

    Novel
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    The Cotton Club

    A primarily white club that had various african american enetertainers (duke ellington, ella fitzgerald, louis armstrong)
  • The Walls of Jericho by Rudolph Fisher

    The Walls of Jericho by Rudolph Fisher

    Novel
  • There is Confusion by Jessie Redmon Fauset

    There is Confusion by Jessie Redmon Fauset

    Novel
  • The Fire in the Flint by Walter White

    The Fire in the Flint by Walter White

    Novel
  • Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten

    Nigger Heaven by Carl Van Vechten

    Novel
  • Home to Harlem by Claude McKay

    Home to Harlem by Claude McKay

    Novel
  • Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset

    Plum Bun by Jessie Redmon Fauset

    Novel
  • Quicksand by Nella Larsen

    Quicksand by Nella Larsen

    Novel
  • Passing by Nella Larsen

    Passing by Nella Larsen

    Novel
  • Banjo by Claude McKay

    Banjo by Claude McKay

    Novel
  • The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman

    The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman

    Novel
  • Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

    Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes

    Novel
  • God Saves Sunday by Arna Bontemps

    God Saves Sunday by Arna Bontemps

    novel
  • The Chinaberry Tree by Jessie Redmon Fauset

    The Chinaberry Tree by Jessie Redmon Fauset

    Novel
  • Gingertown by Claude McKay

    Gingertown by Claude McKay

    Novel
  • Black No More by George Schuyler

    Black No More by George Schuyler

    Novel
  • Slaves Today by George Schuyler

    Slaves Today by George Schuyler

    Novel
  • The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher

    The Conjure-Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher

    Novel
  • One Way to Heaven by Countee Cullen

    One Way to Heaven by Countee Cullen

    Novel
  • Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman

    Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman

    Novel
  • Interne by Wallace Thurman

    Interne by Wallace Thurman

    Novel
  • Comedy, American Style by Jessie Redmon Fauset

    Comedy, American Style by Jessie Redmon Fauset

    novel
  • Banana Bottom by Claude McKay

    Banana Bottom by Claude McKay

    Novel
  • Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston

    Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston

    Novel
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    Apollo Theater

    One of the oldest and most famous music halls in harlem, nyc, ny. It is also the most famous club associated almost exclusively with African-American performers.
  • Black Thunder by Arna Bontemps

    Black Thunder by Arna Bontemps

    Novel
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

    Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

    Novel