Class Study Overview

Click on the links below to find brief biographical information on some of the most influential people of the Harlem Renaissance.

Activists

Alain Locke

Carl Van Vechten

W.E.B Dubois

Marcus Garvey

Jessie Redmon Fauset

 

Writers

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes

Arna Bontemps

Zora Neale Hurston

James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay

Jean Toomer

 

Artists

Aaron Douglas

Palmer Hayden

William H. Johnson

Lois Mailou Jones

Jacob Lawrence

Archibald J. Motley Jr.

Ellis Wilson

 

Musicians

Louis Armstrong

Josephine Baker

Benny Carter

Duke Ellington

Billie Holiday

Bessie Smith

Ethel Waters

Ella Fitzgerald

Thomas "Fats" Waller

 

 


Literature Activity | Art Activity | Music Activity

Aaron Douglas Art


Into Bondage

 


Window Cleaning

 


Aspirations

 


Aspects of Negro Life:The Negro in an African Setting

God's Trombone

 


Judgment Day

Play De Blues

Building More Stately Mansions

 


The Negro Speaks of Rivers

 

Links to More Art

Aaron Douglas Art

Art Page

 

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