English 1 - The Harlem Renaissance

The famous figures of the Harlem Renaissance and their works.

Harlem Renaissance

A period of cultural richness in the arts, music, and literature during the 1920s by African Americans in Harlem, New York.

Langston Hughes

African American poet who wrote poems like "Harlem", "I, Too" and "The Negro Speaks of Rivers".

Claude McKay

Poet who wrote "If We Must Die" and "Tropics of NY".

Countee Cullen

Wrote "Incident".

Jacob Lawrence

1920's painter, most famous paintings were of the Great Migration.

Romare Bearden

One of some famous African American visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance.

Aaron Douglas

A Harlem Renaissance painter whose work celebrates African American versatility and adaptability, depicting people in a variety of settings.

Louis Armstrong

Leading African American jazz musician during the Harlem Renaissance; he was a talented trumpeter whose style influenced many later musicians.

Duke Ellington

African American jazz pianist and composer of the Harlem Renaissance.

W.E.B. DuBois

Co-founded the NAACP to help secure legal equality for minority citizens.

James Weldon Johnson

Poet, lawyer, and NAACP executive secretary

Renaissance

rebirth

Paul Laurence Dunbar

A precursor to the Harlem Renaissance; first African American poet.

NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

A civil rights organization (founded in 1909 by W.E.B DuBois and James Weldon Johnson) that fights for racial inequality.

"Mother to Son", "Harlem", and "Dreams".

Three poems by Hughes

"If We Must Die" and "Tropics of NY"

Two poems by McKay

"Incident" and "To the Swimmer"

Two poems by Cullen