List of figures from the Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, and spanning the 1920s. This list includes intellectuals and activists, writers, artists, and performers who were closely associated with the movement.
Intellectuals, activists, journalists
[edit]Writers
[edit]- Lewis Grandison Alexander[3]
- Sterling A. Brown[1]
- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.[1]
- Countee Cullen[1]
- Alice Dunbar-Nelson[1]
- Jessie Redmon Fauset[1]
- Rudolph Fisher[1]
- Edythe Mae Gordon[4]
- Eugene Gordon (writer)[5]
- Angelina Weld Grimke[1]
- Robert Hayden[2]
- Gladys May Casely Hayford[1]
- Ariel Williams Holloway[1]
- Langston Hughes[1]
- Zora Neale Hurston[1]
- Georgia Douglas Johnson[2]
- Helene Johnson[2]
- James Weldon Johnson[1]
- Nella Larsen[1]
- Claude McKay[1]
- May Miller[1]
- Effie Lee Newsome[1]
- Richard Bruce Nugent[1]
- Esther Popel[1]
- George Schuyler[2]
- Eulalie Spence[1]
- Anne Spencer[2]
- Wallace Thurman[1]
- Jean Toomer[1]
- Carl Van Vechten[1]
- Eric Walrond[1]
Performers and entertainers
[edit]Musicians and composers
[edit]- Marian Anderson[1]
- Louis Armstrong[1]
- Count Basie[1]
- Gladys Bentley[1]
- Eubie Blake[1]
- Cab Calloway[1]
- The Chocolate Dandies[1]
- Dorothy Dandridge[1]
- Duke Ellington[1]
- Adelaide Hall[1]
- Roland Hayes[1]
- Fletcher Henderson[1]
- Billie Holiday[1]
- Lena Horne[1]
- Hall Johnson[1]
- James Price Johnson[2]
- Moms Mabley[1]
- Pigmeat Markham[1]
- Florence Mills[1]
- Jelly Roll Morton[1]
- Ma Rainey[1]
- Noble Sissle[1]
- Bessie Smith[1]
- Victoria Spivey[2]
- William Grant Still[1]
- Fats Waller[1]
- Ethel Waters[1]
- Chick Webb[1]
- Bert Williams[1]
- Fess Williams[1]
Visual artists
[edit]- Charles Alston[1]
- Henry Bannarn[9]
- Richmond Barthé
- Romare Bearden[1]
- Leslie Bolling, wood carvings[1]
- Miguel Covarrubias, caricaturist[1]
- Beauford Delaney[1]
- Aaron Douglas[1]
- Edwin A. Harleston[2]
- Palmer Hayden[2]
- Sargent Johnson[1]
- William H. Johnson (painter)[1]
- Lois Mailou Jones[1]
- Jacob Lawrence[1]
- Norman Lewis (artist)[1]
- Archibald Motley[1]
- Augusta Savage[1]
- James Van Der Zee
- Meta Warrick Fuller
- Laura Wheeler Waring
- Hale Woodruff
References
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- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Finkelman, Paul, and Cary Wintz, eds. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Psychology Press, 2004.
- ^ "Lewis Grandison Alexander". The Black Renaissance in Washington.
- ^ Nurick, Russell Jay. "Edythe Mae Gordon". In African American Authors 1745-1945: Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, ed. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000, pp. 184–87.
- ^ Elizee, Andre. "Eugene Gordon Papers". New York Public Library website, April 2006.
- ^ "Obituary: Anise Boyer Burris". New York Amsterdam News. October 23, 2008. p. 37 – via ProQuest.
- ^ StreetSwing Dance History Archives
- ^ "The Four Step Brothers". Footnotesontap.com. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ "Henry Bannarn". Minneapolis Institute of Art