Harlem Renaissance
Ms. Gray
Normal West English Dept.

General

read - write - think
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
PBS: Online NewsHour
Drop Me Off in Harlem: Faces of the Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance: multimedia resource
SIRS Decades: 20th Century American Sources (Library Database, available through the IMC website)

Writers

Langston Hughes Poets.org: Langston Hughes
Zora Neal Hurston Zora Neale Hurston: Teacher Resource File
Countee Cullen Poets.org: Countee Cullen
Claude McKay Drop Me Off in Harlem: Claude McKay
James Baldwin PBS: American Masters - James Baldwin
Paul Laurence Dunbar Answers.com: Paul Laurence Dunbar

Activists

W.E.B. DuBois The George Washington University: Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. DuBois
James Weldon Johnson Drop Me Off in Harlem: James Weldon Johnson
Marcus Garvey PBS: American Experience - Marcus Garvey

Musicians

Louis Armstrong Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance: Louis Armstrong
Billie Holiday PBS: American Masters - Billie Holliday
Ella Fitzgerald Library of Congress: 'First Lady of Song'
Bessie Smith Women in History: Bessie Smith
Duke Ellington The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington
Fletcher Henderson Answers.com: Fletcher Henderson

Actors

Charles Gilpin The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: Charles Gilpin
Paul Robeson Drop Me Off in Harlem: Paul Robeson
Ethel Waters Drop Me Off in Harlem: Ethel Waters

Artists

Aaron Douglas Home to Harlem: Aaron Douglas
Selma Burke African Americans in the Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective
Palmer Hayden PBS: African American World - Palmer Hayden
Oscar Micheaux Answers.com: Oscar Micheaux
05 December 2007 by Ellen Rehn