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

Lois Mailou Jones Art

Les Fetiches

Voodoo Worshipers

The Lovers

Untitled

The Lynching

Initiation Liberia

Street Vendors

Ascent of Ethiopia

Links to More Art

Great Women Artist

Lois Mailou Jones Gallery

Art Page

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