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

 

Ellis Wilson Art


End of the Day

 


Flower Vendor

Two Mothers

 


Summer Magic


Woman Sweeping

 


Shore Leave

Field Workers

 


Fish Wives

Old Charleston

 


Funeral Procession

Links to More Art

Ellis Wilson Gallery

Art Page

 

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