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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.
Lionel Hampton – jazz musician; lived in Harlem through World War II and for some years thereafter [37] Hubert Harrison – "the father of Harlem Radicalism" Leonard Harper – Harlem Renaissance producer, stager, and choreographer; Coleman Hawkins – musician, saxophone player; lived at 555 Edgecombe Avenue [42]
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]
John Thomas Biggers (April 13, 1924 – January 25, 2001) [1] was an African-American muralist who came to prominence after the Harlem Renaissance and toward the end of World War II. Biggers created works critical of racial and economic injustice.
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.
This is a list of museums in the United States whose primary focus is on African American culture and history. Such museums are commonly known as African American museums . According to scholar Raymond Doswell, an African American museum is "an institution established for the preservation of African-derived culture."
Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer; December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and with modernism.
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.