Schomburg became involved in the Harlem Renaissance movement, which spread to other African-American communities in the U.S.
Charles Lampkin's performances of the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance set to music he composed were recorded in 1957 for the National Association of English Teachers.
Clarissa Scott Delany, nee Clarissa Mae Scott (1901-1927) was an African-American poet, essayist, educator and social worker associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
The rent parties were fictional; however there were parties and salons during the Harlem Renaissance on the 1920s and '30.
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He enters the party with Solly and discovers a whole new world of jazz music, money and glamour—the Harlem Renaissance.
George Wylie Henderson (June 14, 1904-1965) was an author of the Harlem Renaissance.
Soon after her husband's death, Johnson began to host what became forty years of weekly "Saturday Salons", for friends and authors, including Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Anne Spencer, Richard Bruce Nugent, Alain Locke, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimke and Eulalie Spence— all major contributors to the New Negro Movement, which is better known today as the Harlem Renaissance.
A 6'6" forward/center, DeZonie attended Clark Atlanta University in the 1940s and then joined the Rens, an all-black travelling basketball team named after the Harlem Renaissance.
With this addition, he references the movement begun during the Harlem Renaissance to incorporate traditional African aesthetics into African American art.
However, her parents did not have enough money to pay for her college, so in 1923, she moved to New York during the early stages of the Harlem Renaissance.
The museum holds 82 photographs by Carl Van Vechten, whose work depicted many notable figures of the Harlem Renaissance from the 1930s through the 1950s.
Emmanuel Taylor Gordon, Harlem Renaissance singer and performer, was born, raised, and died in White Sulphur Springs.
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One of their daughters, Laura Wheeler Waring, became a portrait painter known for her work during the Harlem Renaissance.
Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the Land of the Free, AD 1933-1940 is a 1931 Harlem Renaissance era satire on American race relations by George S. Schuyler (pronounced Sky-ler).
Mills became well-known as a result of her role in the successful Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921) at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre (barely on Broadway), one of the events credited with beginning the Harlem Renaissance, as well acclaimed reviews in London, Paris, Ostend, Liverpool, and other European venues.
He secured the interest and support of militant New York trade unions, the noted African-American musician Alfred Jack Thomas, and such prominent representatives of the Harlem Renaissance as James Weldon Johnson.
Langston Hughes was an influential poet and author whose literary work helped create an innovative way of expression during the Harlem Renaissance period.
Lewis Grandison Alexander (July 4, 1900 - 1945) was an American poet, actor, playwright, and costume designer who lived in Washington, D.C. and had strong ties to the Harlem Renaissance period in New York.
The Negro World also played an important part in the Harlem Renaissance (or Jazz Age) of the 1920s.
Theophilus Lewis (1891–1974) was an African-American drama critic, a writer, and a magazine editor during the Harlem Renaissance whose contributions primarily appeared in The Messenger, the socialist African-American magazine founded by A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen.