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Harlem Renaissance

For courses EDF 2085, EDF 3203, EDF 3610, EDF 6887

People of the Harlem Renaissance

Jessie Fauset	Nella Larsen	Zora Neale Hurston	Jean Toomer	W.E.B. Du Bois
Charles S. Johnson	Alain Locke	James Weldon Johnson	Arna Bontemps	Carl Van Vechten
Dorothy West	Claude McKay	Langston Hughes	Countee Cullen	Adam Clayton Powell
C.J. and A'lelia Walker	Bessie Smith	Duke Ellington	Louis Armstrong

Organizations of the Harlem Renaissance

Websites

African American Migration Experience

African American Odyssey: World War I and Post War Society

Art of the Harlem Renaissance Rhapsodies in Black

Artcyclopedia Artists by Movement:The Harlem Renaissance

Biographies of the Harlem Renaissance

Drop Me Off in Harlem

Eyecon Art: The Harlem Renaissance

Harlem: Exhibition

Harlem: For Teachers

Harlem: Resources

Harlem: Timeline (1900-1940)

Harlem Renaissance Reading List (from Smithsonian Institute)

Harlem Renaissance: Multimedia Resource

In Motion: The African American Migration Experience

Library of Congress: A Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials

Library of Congress: American Memory Collection

Library of Congress: The Harlem Renaissance: student discovery sets (Primary Sources)

Life Photo Archive (by Google)

Literature and Life

Making of America

Marcus Garvey: Say It Plain (broadcast from American Radioworks)

New York Times Historical File

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project

PBS Online News Hour:Harlem Renaissance

Stonewall Library, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

USC-Columbia, SC Thomas Cooper Library:James Weldon Johnson

Whitney Museum of Art: Jacob Lawrence

Last updated on Sep 9, 2025 1:40 PM

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