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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]
In 1925 Thurman moved to Harlem, New York City. During the next decade, he worked as a ghostwriter, a publisher, and editor and wrote novels, plays, and articles. [1] In 1926, he became the editor of The Messenger, a socialist journal addressed to black people. There he was the first to publish the adult-themed stories of Langston Hughes. [1]
She retired from the New York Public Library in 1966. In 1968, Anderson was a consultant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibit Harlem on My Mind. Later, Anderson wrote The Black New Yorkers partially due to her experience working on that exhibit. [9] [13] Anderson outlived virtually all of the other members of the Harlem Renaissance.
The New Negro: An Interpretation (1925) is an anthology of fiction, poetry, and essays on African and African-American art and literature edited by Alain Locke, who lived in Washington, DC, and taught at Howard University during the Harlem Renaissance. [1]
Hughes's poems "Mother to Son", "The Negro Speaks of Rivers", and "Harlem" were described in the Encyclopedia of African-American Writing as "anthems of black America". [4] The linguist John Rickford considers Hughes's use of African-American Vernacular English to be representative of "a convention of dialect writing rather than an accurate ...
Harlem Community Art Center; Harlem History Club; List of figures from the Harlem Renaissance; Harlem Renaissance theater companies; Hubert Harrison; Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years; Monte Hawley; Leslie Pinckney Hill; Hodge Kirnon; Hoofers Club; Pauline Hopkins; Hot Chocolates; Langston Hughes; Zora Neale Hurston
Esther B. Popel (July 16, 1896 – January 28, 1958; also known as Esther Popel Shaw) was an African-American poet of the Harlem Renaissance, an activist, and an educator. She wrote and edited for magazines such as The Crisis , the Journal of Negro Education , and Opportunity .
The Langston Hughes House is a historic home located in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City.It is an Italianate style dwelling built in 1869. It is a three-story-with-basement, rowhouse faced in brownstone and measuring 20 feet wide and 45 feet deep.