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The Harlem Renaissance
[circa 1919 to circa 1936]
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“The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved,
and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.”
— historian & blogger Aberjhani
“[The Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness
challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.”
— Clement Alexander Price, in "The Encyclopedia of The Harlem Renaissance"
“I met Obama once, backstage at the Apollo in Harlem.”
— conceptual artist Glenn Ligon
s h o r t h i s t o r y
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Reading Material
search for books on keywords 'Harlem Renaissance' {returns 800+} at Amazon
June 2011 article "The Approaching 100th Anniversary of The Harlem Renaissance" by Aberjhani
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 | "The Book of American Negro Poetry" [orig 1922] Edited by James Weldon Johnson [1871-1938] Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [3/2011] for FREE {sic} Harcourt, Brace & World mass pb [1959] out of print/scarce Book Jungle 9x7½ pb [5/2008] for $6.71 BiblioLife 9x6 hardcover [8/2008] for $26.09 |
 | "Voices From The Harlem Renaissance" [1976] Edited by Nathan Irvin Huggins over 120 selections from Gwendolyn Bennett, Eubie Blake, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jessie Redmond Fauset, Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, Fenton Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, A. Philip Randolph, George S. Schuyler, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, Dorothy West, Richard Wright, and others, with art by Richmond Barthé, Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Archibald J. Motley, Augusta Savage & Hale Woodruff Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [1/95] for $24.99 Oxford Univ Press pb [1976] out of print/used |
 | "The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader" [1995] Edited by David Levering Lewis poetry, prose, short fiction & self-contained novel excerpts (organized chronologically) of some forty-five Renaissance figures, including: Romare Bearden, Gwendolyn Bennett, Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, and Richard Wright Penguin 7¾x5 pb [6/95] for $13.60 Paw Prints 7¾x5 library hardcover [6/2008] for $27.00 Perfection Learning 7½x5 library hardcover [6/95] for $32.80 |
 | "The Crisis Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays From The N.A.A.C.P.'s Crisis Magazine" [1999] Edited by Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson contributors include: Charles Chestnutt, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, sociologist E. Franklin Frazier, philosopher Alain Locke, activist Walter White Modern Library Harlem Ren 8½x5½ pb [1/99] for $23.00 |
 | "The Opportunity Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays From The Urban League's Opportunity Magazine, 1923-1949" [1999] Edited by Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson
contributors include: Countee Cullen, Arthur Huff Fauset, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, John F. Matheus, Arthur Schomburg, Eric D. Walrond, Dorothy West Modern Library Harlem Ren 8½x5½ pb [6/99] for $19.83 |
 | "The Messenger Reader: Stories, Poetry, and Essays From The Messenger Magazine, 1917-1928" [2000] Edited by Dr. Sondra Kathryn Wilson contributors include: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, editor Chandler Owen, editor A. Philip Randolph, Paul Robeson, Wallace Thurman, Dorothy West Modern Library Harlem Ren pb [2/2000] for $23.00 |
 | "Individual Reader: The Harlem Renaissance" [2000] from Holt McDougal Littel High School Nextext Literary Reader containing works by Gwendolyn Bennett, Sterling A. Brown, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others Holt McDougal Littel 8¼x5½ hardcover [7/2000] for $14.98 |
 | "Double-Take: A Revisionist Harlem Renaissance Anthology" [2001] Edited by Venetria K. Patton & Maureen Honey 670 pages contains ESSAYS by Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Marita O. Bonner, William Stanley Braithwaite, Marion Vera Cuthbert, W.A. Domingo, W.E.B. Du Bois, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Randolph Fisher, Amy Jacques Garvey, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke (2), Elsie Johnson McDougald, Brenda Ray Moryck, A. Philip Randolph & Chandler Owen, Joel E. Rogers, George S. Schuyler, Ruth Whitehead Whaley, and Richard Wright; and CREATIVE WRITING by Gwendolyn B. Bennett, Marita O. Bonner, Arna Bontemps, Sterling A. Brown, Anita Scott Coleman, Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr., Mae V. Cowdery, Countee Cullen, (William) Waring Cuney, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Randolph Fisher, Angelina Weld Grimke, Gladys May Casely Hayford (aka Aquah Laluah), Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Fenton Johnson, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, John F. Matheus, Claude McKay, May Miller, Effie Lee Newsome (aka Mary Effie Lee), Richard Bruce (Nugent), Willis Richardson, Eulaine Spence, Anne Spencer, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, Eric Walrond, and Dorothy West Kindle Edition from Rutgers Univ Press [2001 edition] for $32.95 {sic} Rutgers Univ Press 10x7 pb [12/2001] out of print/used Rutgers Univ Press 10½x7½ library hardcover [12/2001] out of print/used |
 | "The Harlem Reader: A Celebration of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood, From The Renaissance Years To The 21st Century" [2003] Edited by Herb Boyd, Foreword by Howard Dodson contributors include: Mayo Angelou, James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois, Grace Edwards, Duke Ellington, Marcus Garvey, Alexander Hamilton, Langston Hughes, Weldon Johnson, Mase, Claude McKay, Willie Perdomo, Ann Petry, Adam Clayton Powell, Sonia Sanchez, Rev. Al Sharpton, Piri Thomas, Malcolm X Kindle Edition from Broadway Books [12/2007] for $4.99 Broadway Books 8½x5½ pb [5/2003] for $19.00 |
Fiction Works
 | "Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of The 1920s" [2011] Edited by Rafia Zafar Library of America 8¼x5 hardcover [9/2011] for $26.03 includes "Cane" [1923] by Jean Toomer, "Home To Harlem" [1928] by Claude McKay, "Quicksand" [1928] by Nella Larsen, "Plum Bun: A Novel Without A Moral" [1928] by Jessie Redmon Fauset, and "The Blacker The Berry" [1929] by Wallace Thurman |
 | "Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of The 1930s" [2011] Edited by Rafia Zafar Library of America 8¼x5 hardcover [9/2011] for $26.60 includes "Not Without Laughter" [1931] by poet Langston Hughes, "Black No More" [1931] science fiction novel by George S. Schuyler, "The Conjure-Man Dies" [1932] detective novel by Rudolph Fisher, and "Black Thunder" [1936] by Arna Bontemps |
"Harlem Renaissance Novels: The Library of America Collection" Box Set [2011]
Library of America hardcover slipcover set [9/2011] for $44.10
 | "The Novels of The Harlem Renaissance: Twelve Black Writers, 1923-1933" [1971] by Amritjit Singh Author focuses on twenty-one novels published between 1923 and 1933 by twelve black writers of the Harlem Renaissance: Bontemps, Cullen, Du Bois, Fauset, Fisher, Hughes, Larsen, McKay, Schuyler, Thurman, Toomer, and Walter White Penn State Univ Press pb [10/2001] for $35.95 |
Works About The Subject
 | "Harlem: The Making of A Ghetto - Negro New York, 1890-1930" [1966] by Gilbert Osofsky Ivan R. Dee Publrs 8¼x5½ pb [2/96] for $12.67 Harper & Row 8x5¼ pb [1968] for $45.34 Harper & Row 8½x6 hardcover [1966] out of print/used |
 | "Harlem Renaissance" [1972 classic] by Nathan Irvin Huggins, new Foreword by Arnold Rampersad Oxford Univ Press 8x5¼ pb [5/2007] for $11.56 Oxford Univ Press hardcover [3/72] out of print/used |
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"The Harlem Renaissance: Revaluations (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)" [1989] Edited by Amritjit Singh, William D. Shiver & Stanley Brodwin Garland Publng 10x8 hardcover [3/89] out of print/used |
 | "The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930" [1995] by Steven Watson Pantheon 7¼x7¼ pb [8/96] for $13.35 Pantheon 7½x7½ hardcover [3/95] out of print/many used |
 | "Black Stars of The Harlem Renaissance: African Americans Who Lived Their Dreams" [YA 2002] Edited by Jim Haskins
Chapters cover Louis Armstrong, Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle, Thomas Andrew Dorsey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Duke Ellington, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Marcus Garvey, W.C. Handy, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Francis Hall Johnson, filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, Philip A, Payton Jr., Gertrude 'Ma' Rainey, Paul Robeson, Augusta Savage, Bessie Smith, James Van Der Zee, and Dorothy West Kindle Edition from Wiley & Sons [2002 edition] for $10.99 Wiley & Sons 9x7½ pb [9/2002] for $13.63 |
 | "Encyclopedia of The Harlem Renaissance" [2003] by Aberjhani & Sandra L. West, Foreword by Clement Alexander Price Kindle Edition from Facts On File [2003 edition] for $60.00 {sic} Checkmark Books/Facts On File Library 11x8½ pb [9/2003] out of print/used Facts On File Library 11¼x8¾ hardcover [9/2003] out of print/used won an ACRL Choice Academic Title Award in 2004 |
 | "Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of The Harlem Renaissance" [ages 12 & up; 2004] by Laban Carrick Hill, Foreword by Nikki Giovanni Little, Brown BFYR 11x9½ pb [2009] for $15.14 Little, Brown BFYR 11¼x9¾ hardcover [1/2004] out of print/many used |
 | "Children's Literature of The Harlem Renaissance" [2004] by Katharine Capshaw Smith Kindle Edition from Indiana Univ Press [2004 edition] for $9.99 Indiana Univ Press 9x6 pb [8/2006] for $25.00 Indiana Univ Press 9½x6½ hardcover [7/2004] for $59.99 won an ACRL Choice Academic Title Award in 2005 |
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"Encyclopedia of The Harlem Renaissance - in 2 Volumes" [2004] Edited by Cary D. Wintz & Paul Finkelman Kindle Edition from Routledge [12/2012] for $188.00 {sic} Routledge 11¼x8½x3¼" {1392 pages} pb [3/2017] for $235.00 {sic} - not yet publd? Routledge 11¼x8½x3¼" {1392 pages, 9.2 pounds!} hardcover [10/2004] for $433.92 {sic} won an ACRL Choice Academic Title Award in 2005 |
 | "Encyclopedia of The Harlem Literary Renaissance: The Essential Guide To The Lives and Works of The Harlem Renaissance Writers" [2005] by Lois Brown
Facts On File/Checkmark Books 9x7¼ pb [9/2006] for $19.76 Facts On File (Literary Movements Series) 9¾x7½ hardcover [10/2005] for $71.25 |
http://www.amazon.com/Modernism-Harlem-Renaissance-Houston-Baker/dp/0226035255/ 11/1987
"Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America" [2/1994] by Mary Schmidt Campbell
http://www.amazon.com/Harlem-Renaissance-Art-Black-America/dp/0810981289/
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Harlem-Renaissance-Letters/dp/0253209803/ 10/1995
http://www.amazon.com/Harlem-Renaissance-Black-White/dp/0674372638/ 1/1996
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Culture-Harlem-Renaissance-Wintz/dp/089096761X/ 6/2000
http://www.amazon.com/Harlem-Speaks-Living-History-Renaissance/dp/1402204361/ 11/2006
"Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto" [12/2013] by Camilo José Vergara
http://www.amazon.com/Harlem-Unmaking-Historical-Studies-America/dp/0226853365/
 | "Becoming African Americans: The Public Life of Harlem, 1919–1939" [2009] by Clare Corbould Kindle Edition from Harvard Univ Press [7/2009] for $51.50 {sic} Harvard Univ Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [3/2009] out of print/used |
 | "Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History From Dutch Village To Capital of Black America" [2011] by Jonathan Gill
Kindle Edition from Grove Press [2/2011] for $2.99 {sic} Grove Press 9x6 pb [2/2012] for $17.25 Grove Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2011] for $26.66 |
 | "The 1920s: Early Jazz and The Harlem Renaissance" [2014] by David B. McCoy 59-page Kindle Edition from Spare Change Press [4/2014] for $3.99 80-page Spare Change Press 9x6 pb [10/2018] for $8.99 |
 | "I, Too, Sing America: The Harlem Renaissance At 100" [2018]  by Columbus Museum of Art Rizzoli Electa 11x9 hardcover [10/2018] for $34.43 exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art, October 2018 to January 2019 C.M.A. "I, Too, Sing America" exhibition + watch 3/2018 official promo [1:30] Columbus Harlem Renaissance 100 group |
Authors & Activists
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Gwendolyn B. Bennett [1902-81]
entry at Wikipedia
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Arna Wendell Bontemps [1902-73]
entry at Wikipedia
"Black Thunder" [1936] by Arna Bontemps
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poet Countee Cullen [1903-46]
entry at Wikipedia
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Jessie Redmon Fauset [1882-1961]
Wikipedia
"Plum Bun: A Novel Without A Moral" [1928] by Jessie Redmon Fauset
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Rudolph Fisher [1897-1934]
Wikipedia
"The Walls of Jericho" [1928 novel]
 | "The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem" [1932 classic] The first Afro-American detective in the first mystery novel by an Afro-American author; the victim is an African prince graduated from Harvard; the other main characters include a physician, a mortician, an N.Y.P.D. detective, and Bubber Brown, a former street cleaner turned private eye. Univ Michigan Press 8x5¼ pb [4/92] for $16.95 X Press 7¾x5 pb [1997] out of print/used Ayer Co. Publng 8¼x5¼ hardcover [12/92] for $35.95 8/2011 review at the FemmeNoir weblog |
"City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher" [Univ Missouri Press anthology 1991]
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poet Langston Hughes [1925-90]
browse books • IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
Langston Hughes page at A.A.L.B.C.
"Not Without Laughter" [1931] by Langston Hughes
Zora Neale Hurston [1891-1960]
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KH's Zora Neale Hurston fansite
Zora Neale Hurston page at A.A.L.B.C.
"Jonah's Gourd Vine" [1934]
"Mules and Men" [1935]
"Tell My Horse" [1937]
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" [1937 novel]
"Moses, Man of The Mountain" [1939 novel]
"Dust Tracks On A Road" autobiography [1942]
"Seraph On The Suwanee" [1948]
 | "Zora Neale Hurston: The Complete Stories" [1995] Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Sieglinde Lemke HarperPerennial 7¾x5¼ pb [1/2008] for $11.21 HarperPerennial 8x5¼ pb [2/96] for $10.17 HarperCollins 8½x6 hardcover [1/95] out of print/used |
 | Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs & Other Writings [1995] Edited by Cheryl A. Wall
Library of America 8x5 hardcover [2/95] for $24.00 includes "Mules and Men" [1935]; "Tell My Horse" [1937]; "Dust Tracks On A Road" [1942 autobiography]; and 22 essays Hurston: Novels & Stories [1995] Edited by Cheryl A. Wall Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [2/95] for $21.35 includes "Jonah's Gourd Vine" [1934]; "Their Eyes Were Watching God" [1937 novel]; "Moses, Man of The Mountain" [1939 novel]; "Seraph On The Suwanee" [1948]; and selected short stories |
 | "Wrapped In Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston" [2002] by Valerie Boyd Scribner 8¾x6 pb [1/2004] for $12.24 Scribner hardcover [12/2002] for $30.00 |
 | "Hitting A Straight Lick With A Crooked Stick" stories [2020] by Zora Neale Hurston Edited with An Introduction by Genevieve West, Foreword by Tayari Jones a collection of 21 Harlem Renaissance short stories by Hurston, eight are newly-discovered Kindle Edition from Amistad/HarperCollins [1/2020] for $12.99 Amistad 8¼x5½ hardcover [1/2020] for $15.39 |
Nella Larsen [1891-1964]
"Quicksand" [1928] by Nella Larsen
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Fiction-Nella-Larsen-Quicksand/dp/0385721005/
"Nella Larsen, Novelist of The Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled" []
by Thadious M. Davis http://www.amazon.com/Nella-Larsen-Novelist-Harlem-Renaissance/dp/0807120707/
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Alain LeRoy Locke [1885-1954]
the term 'New Negro Movement' was derived from the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke
http://www.amazon.com/Alain-Locke/e/B008YIERGI/ incomplete
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm9866424/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_LeRoy_Locke
"The New Negro: An Interpretation" [Albert & Charles Boni, 1925]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Negro:_An_Interpretation
http://www.amazon.com/New-Negro-Alain-Locke-ebook/dp/B00N5Y0SFU/
http://www.amazon.com/New-Negro-Voices-Harlem-Renaissance/dp/0684838311/
"The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke" [2/2018] by Jeffrey C. Stewart
http://www.amazon.com/New-Negro-Life-Alain-Locke/dp/019508957X/
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Jamaican-American writer & poet Festus Claudius 'Claude' McKay [1889-1948]
The first Afro-American to have a bestselling novel in the U.S.; in 1977 he was named the national poet of Jamaica.
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"Songs of Jamaica" [poetry 1912]
"Constab Ballads" [poetry 1912]
"Spring In New Hampshire and Other Poems" [1920]
"Harlem Shadows" [poetry 1922]
"Home To Harlem" bestseller [1928]
"Banjo: A Novel" [1929]
"Banana Bottom" [1933]
"Gingertown" [1932]
"A Long Way from Home" non-fiction [1937]
"Harlem: Negro Metropolis" non-fiction [1940]
"Harlem Glory" [written 1940, publd 1990]
 | "Amiable With Big Teeth: A Newly-Discovered Novel" novel [written 1941, publd 2017] by Claude McKay, Edited by Jean-Christophe Cloutier & Brent Hayes Edwards • An ambitious satirical novel written under contract and completed in 1941; but the ms was rejected and somehow vanished into the files of an independent publisher; full subtitle: A Novel of The Love Affair Between The Commu-nists and The Poor Black Sheep of Harlem"; ms was rediscovered in 2012, and this is its first publication Kindle Edition from Penguin Classics [2/2017] for $14.99 Penguin Classics 9¼x6¼ hardcover [2/2017] for $14.64 Blackstone Audio UNABR MP-3 CD read by Prentice Onayemi [3/2017] for $29.95 |
"My Green Hills of Jamaica" non-fiction [1979]
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'Professor' Lewis H. Micheaux [1885-1976]
activist, bookseller, and brother of Oscar Micheaux
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Lewis Micheaux and partner Willis Huggins opened the National Memorial African Bookstore at 125th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem (New York City) with five books, circa 1933; when it closed in 1975, the mostly-left-wing inventory had grown to over 200,000 books. Malcolm X wrote his speeches in the back of the bookstore; other regular visitors included W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, A. Philip Randolph, and Thurgood Marshall. A huge sign on the storefront read 'The House of Common Sense and Home of Proper Propaganda'.
 | "The Black Power Mixtape, 1967-1975" [Swedish TV 2011, Sundance Selects USA Sept 2011] 100-minute documentary film culled from footage by white Swedish filmmakers that was shot in America from 1967-1975 and only recently discovered in storage; includes clips of Lewis Micheaux; others featured include Erykah Badu, Harry Belafonte, Mable Carmichael, Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, Kathleen Cleaver, Angela Davis, Louis Farrakhan, Danny Glover, Martin Luther King Jr., Talib Kweli, Bobby Seale, and Malcolm X Written & directed by Göran Olsson full credits at IMDb • official movie site M.P.I. Home Video b&w/color DVD [12/2011] for $19.99 companion book: Haymarket Books hardcover [4/2012] for $16.14 |
 | "No Crystal Stair: A Documentary Novel of The Life and Work of Lewis Micheaux" [YA 2012] by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson, Illustrated by R. Gregory Christie Author often visited her great-uncle Lewis Micheaux at his famous bookstore in Harlem; she spent 15 years researching his life among family members, friends, and libraries. Carolrhoda Books 10x7 hardcover [2/2012] for $11.59 |
filmmaker & novelist
Oscar Micheaux [1884-1951] Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
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George Samuel Schuyler [1895-1977]
Schuyler lived and worked in Pittsburgh from 1924, but is usually included as one of the members of the Harlem Renaissance.
entry at Wikipedia
"Slaves Today: A Story of Liberia" [1931]
"Black No More: Being An Account of The Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science In The Land of The Free, A.D. 1933–1940" science fiction novel [1931]
the story of a scientist who develops a process that turns black people to white, since reprinted twice;
two of Schuyler's targets in the book were Christianity and organized religion
"Devil Town: An Enthralling Story of Tropical Africa" novella [1933] published pseudonymously in the Pittsburgh Courier, June–July 1933)
"Golden Gods: A Story of Love, Intrigue and Adventure in African Jungles" novella [1933-34] published pseudonymously in the Pittsburgh Courier, 12/1933 - 2/1934
"The Beast of Bradhurst Avenue: A Gripping Tale of Adventure In The Heart of Harlem" novella [1934] published pseudonymously in the Pittsburgh Courier, March–May 1934
"Strange Valley" novella [1934] published pseudonymously in the Pittsburgh Courier, August–November 1934
"Black Empire, 1936–38" [1993] originally published pseudonymously in the Pittsburgh Courier in serial form
as two separate works under the titles "The Black Internationale" and "Black Empire"
"Ethiopian Stories" [1995] originally published pseudonymously in the Pittsburgh Courier in serial form
as two separate works entitled "The Ethiopian Murder Mystery" and "Revolt In Ethiopia"
"Black and Conservative: The Autobiography of George Schuyler" [Arlington House, 1966] ASIN: B000O66XD8
"Rac(e)ing To The Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler" [2001]
"The Sage In Harlem: H.L. Mencken and The Black Writers of The 1920s" [Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1984] by Charles Scruggs ISBN 0-8018-3000-1
"The Sage of Sugar Hill: George S. Schuyler and The Harlem Renaissance" [Yale Univ Press, 2005] by Jeffrey Ferguson ISBN 0-300-10901-6 + 978-0-300-10901-6
"George S. Schuyler: Portrait of A Black Conservative" [Univ Tennessee Press, 2007] by Oscar R. Williams ISBN 1-57233-581-5 + 978-1-57233-581-3
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Afro-American writer Wallace Henry Thurman [1902–34]
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entry at Wikipedia
"The Blacker The Berry" [1929] by Wallace Thurman
 | "The Collected Writings of Wallace Thurman: A Harlem Renaissance Reader" [2003] Edited by Amritjit Singh & Daniel M. Scott III Kindle Edition from Rutgers Univ Press [2003 edition] for $17.99 Rutgers Univ Press 10x7 pb [8/2003] for $31.35 |
Jean Toomer [1894-1967]
entry at Wikipedia
"Cane" [Boni and Liveright, 1923] by Jean Toomer ISBN 0-87140-151-7
"Problems of Civilization" [D. Van Nostrand Co. 1929] by Ellsworth Huntington, Whiting Williams, Jean Toomer and others
"Essentials: Definitions and Aphorisms" [Lakeside Press, 1931]
"An Interpretation of Friends Worship" [Committee on Religious Education of Friends General Conference, 1947]
"The Flavor of Man" [Young Friends Movement of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1949]
"The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer" [Univ NC Press, 1988] ISBN 0-8078-4209-5
"The Letters of Jean Toomer, 1919-1924" [Univ Tennessee Press, 2006]
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Eric Derwent Walrond [1898-1966]
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 | "Tropic Death" [Liveright 1926] by Eric Walrond, Introduction by Arnold Rampersad Short story collection, each set in Barbados, the Canal Zone, British Guiana, or Panama Liveright 8x6 pb [9/2013] for $11.97 Liveright 8¼x5¾ hardcover [1/2013] for $16.26 |
activist Walter Francis White [1893-1955]
hired by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as an investigator in 1918; was Executive Secretary from 1931 to 1955
entry at Wikipedia
Artists & Entertainers
Harlem Artists Guild [1935–41]
an Afro-American organization founded by artists including Augusta Savage, Charles Alston, Elba Lightfoot, Romare Bearden,
Gwendolyn Bennett, Aaron Douglas, Norman Lewis, Jacob Lawrence, and bibliophile Arthur Schomburg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Artists_Guild
Harlem Community Art Center [1937-42] was founded by the Harlem Artists Guild
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Community_Art_Center
 | "A History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present" [1993] by Romare Bearden & Harry Henderson Pantheon 12½x9¼ hardcover [10/93] out of print/used |
painter & teacher Charles Henry Alston [1907-77]
entry at Wikipedia
multimedia artist Romare Bearden [1911-88]
entry at Wikipedia
cartoonist E. Simms Campbell [1906-71]
worked for Esquire Magazine, 1933-58; drew syndicated "Cuties" panel, 1943-71
entry at Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/WWII-Era-Comic-Simms-Campbell/dp/1616461330/
http://www.amazon.com/Chorus-Cuties-Simms-Campbell/dp/B003Y5JO64/
http://www.amazon.com/Cuties-arms-Simms-Campbell/dp/B0007FZM8I/
http://www.amazon.com/More-Cuties-Arms-Simms-Campbell/dp/B0006AQ3VY/
painter Aaron Douglas [1899-1979]
entry at Wikipedia
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entertainer Florence Mills [1896-1927]
Duke Ellington dedicated his outstanding composition "Black Beauty" to her.
entry at Wikipedia •
Australian fansite [est. 2004]
 | "Florence Mills: Harlem Jazz Queen" [2004] by Bill Egan Scarecrow Press 9x7 pb [10/2004] for $40.04 |
 | "Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills" [ages 3-7; 2012] Words by Renée Watson, Pictures by Christian Robinson Kindle Edition from Random House BFYR [10/2012] for $4.99 Random House BFYR 10¼x8½ hardcover [10/2012] for $14.83 |
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singer-actor Paul Robeson [1898-1976]
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on H.U.A.C.'s Hollywood Blacklist, 1952-56
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composer William Grant Still [1895-1978]
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entry at Wikipedia •
papers at Duke Univ
 | "William Grant Still: A Study In Contradictions" biography [2000] by Catherine Parsons Smith Univ California Press 9x6 pb [3/2000] for $29.28 Univ California Press 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2000] out of print/used |
singer-actress Ethel Waters [1900-77]
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Movies, Stageplays, Other Media
"Moon Over Harlem" [1939] /tt0031668/
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer; featuring clarinetist Sidney Bechet and Christopher Columbus & His Swing Crew Orchestra
"Great Day In Harlem [1994]
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Day-Harlem-Quincy-Jones/dp/B01DK6W5A8/
"Lullaby of Harlem [2004]
https://www.amazon.com/Lullaby-Harlem-Billie-Holiday/dp/B01CIUI2G8/ prime + not avail
 | "Harlem Renaissance: The Music & Rhythms That Started A Cultural Revolution" [indep 2004] • Directed by Marino Amoruso; with archive footage of Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Nat 'King' Cole, Dorothy Dandridge, Duke Ellington, Lena Horne, The Mills Brothers & Fats Waller Kultur Intl Films b&w DVD [7/2004] for $15.11 credits at IMDb |
"Against The Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance [PBS 2006]
http://www.amazon.com/Against-Odds-Artists-Harlem-Renaissance/dp/B000E0OBDI/
"Been Rich All My Life [2006] /tt0810768/
https://www.amazon.com/Been-Rich-All-My-Life/dp/B00I2VQYU4/ prime + not avail
"New York Noir: The History of Black New York [2011]
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AHGADGS/
 | "Black History in America: The Harlem Renaissance" [indep Oct 2014] 40-minute film featuring Langston Hughes Smith Show Media Group DVD-R [10/2014] for $24.99 not listed at IMDb (2018) |
"Black History Our World: The Renaissance in Harlem [2016]
http://www.amazon.com/Renaissance-Harlem-Black-History-World/dp/B01LTHO224/
 | "Harlem's Arabian Nights" [1998] by Keith Nichols and The Cotton Club Orchestra Stomp Off Records music CD [8/98] 23 tracks - out of prodn/used Stomp Off Records MP3 soundtrack album download [10/2015] 23 tracks for $9.49 music written and performed by Duke Ellington and James P. Johnston (or their associates) here recorded for the first time! |
 | "Hothouse Stomp: The Music of 1920s Chicago and Harlem" [2011] Performed by Brian Carpenter's Ghost Train Orchestra Accurate Records music CD [3/2011] out of prodn/used 12 tracks that pay tribute to Charlie Johnson's Paradise Orchestra, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Tiny Parham and His Musicians, and Fess Williams' Royal Flush Orchestra |
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![1936 painting "School's Out" by Allan Rohan Crite](images/schools_out_1936-1024x851.jpg "1936 painting "School's Out\" by Allan Rohan Crite")
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Harlem Renaissance entry at Wikipedia
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