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

Hale Woodruff Art


Georgia Landscape

 


The Card Players

 


The Lynching

 


Hanged Man at Doorstep

Poor Man's Cotton


Figures in a Mexican Landscape

Returning Home

 


Amistad Mural

 

Links to More Art

Art Page

 

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