Directory of Harlem Renaissance Resources

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Subcategories

• Hurston, Zora Neale
• Johnson, James Weldon
• Toomer, Jean

Resources in This Category

• About Harlem Renaissance Women - Women's History

  http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_list_harlem.htm
  Links to biographical material on women who were part of the movement, from the About.com Guide to Women's History.

• African American Women Dreaming in Color

  http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa022900a.htm
  About the role of women in the movement.

• Harlem Renaissance, 1919-1937

  http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/chap9.html
  A research guide and reference, with background, list of individuals (many with links to further information), timeline, assessment of the importance of the movement.

• Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and After

  https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/brief-guide-harlem-renaissance
  Offers a brief guide.

• Rhapsodies in Black

  http://www.iniva.org/harlem/
  Introduction to the period of the flowering of the arts in the black community in Harlem. Included are backgrounds for artists, a bibliography, and a chronology.

• The Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932 - 1964

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vvhtml/vvhome.html
  Collection contains 1,400 Portraits of literary figures, artists, and celebrities, many of them figures from the movement.

• The Harlem Renaissance

  http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/guides/
  A collection of art, poetry, and prose. Includes a link to subscribe to an email discussion list.

• Wikipedia: Nella Larsen

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nella_Larsen
  Biography of the writer, with summaries of "Quicksand" and "Passing".

 

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