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List of notable 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 of notable figures from the Harlem Renaissance includes intellectuals and
activists, writers, artists, and performers who were closely associated with the movement.
Intellectuals, activists, journalists
Writers
- 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
Musicians and composers
- 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
- 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