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The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. [1]
Harvey B. Gantt Center: Charlotte: North Carolina: 1974 [76] Henderson Institute Historical Museum: Henderson: North Carolina: 1986 [77] Hotel Metropolitan Museum: Paducah: Kentucky [78] Houston Museum of African American Culture: Houston: Texas: 2012 [79] Howard County Center of African American Culture: Columbia: Maryland: 1987 [80] Idaho ...
Gwendolyn B. Bennett (July 8, 1902 – May 30, 1981) was an American artist, writer, and journalist who contributed to Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, which chronicled cultural advancements during the Harlem Renaissance.
The Harlem Renaissance (also known as the New Negro Movement) is named after the anthology The New Negro, edited by Alain Locke. 1926. The Harlem Globetrotters are founded. Historian Carter G. Woodson proposes Negro History Week. Corrigan v Buckley challenges deed restrictions preventing a white seller from selling to a black buyer.
Laura Wheeler Waring (May 26, 1887 – February 3, 1948) was an American artist and educator, most renowned for her realistic portraits, landscapes, still-life, [1] and well-known African American portraitures she made during the Harlem Renaissance. [1]
The writer, social activist and leading Harlem Renaissance figure Langston Hughes moved into the top floor of this Italianate-style brownstone on New York City’s East 127th Street in 1947.
New York City, in particular Harlem, was referred to as a black mecca during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and still is as of today. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Atlanta has also adopted the name and has been referred to as a black mecca since the 1970s, while Black Enterprise has referred to Houston as the emerging equivalent.
Anne Bethel Spencer (born Bannister; February 6, 1882 – July 27, 1975) was an American poet, teacher, civil rights activist, librarian, and gardener.She was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, despite living in Virginia for most of her life, far from the center of the movement in New York.