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

 

William H. Johnson Art


Cafe

 


African Woman

Children Playing London Bridge

 


Going to Church

Underground Railroad

 


Jitterbug

Ferry Boat Trip

Street Life

 


Three Great Abolitionists

The Cotton Pickers

 


Moon Over Harlem

Harriet Tubman

 


Man in a Vest

Links to More Art

William H. Johnson Gallery

William H. Johnson Art

Art Page

 

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