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

 

Archibald J. Motley Jr. Art


Getting' Religion

 


Blues

Tongues (Holy Rollers)

 

 


Black Belt

Nightlife

Hot Rhythm

 


Barbeque

Saturday Night Scene

 


Mexican Baby

 

Links to More Art

Archibald J. Motley Jr. Gallery

Art Page

 

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