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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.
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] At the time, it was known as the " New Negro Movement ", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited ...
Eulalie Spence. Eulalie Spence (June 11, 1894 [1] – March 7, 1981) was a writer, teacher, director, actress and playwright from the British West Indies. She was an influential member of the Harlem Renaissance, writing fourteen plays, at least five of which were published. [1] Spence, who described herself as a "folk dramatist" who made plays ...
Augusta Savage (born Augusta Christine Fells; February 29, 1892 – March 27, 1962) was an American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance. [2] She was also a teacher whose studio was important to the careers of a generation of artists who would become nationally known. She worked for equal rights for African Americans in the arts.
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that ...
Emma Jones. Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (/ miːtə ˈvaʊ / MEE-tə VOW; born Meta Vaux Warrick; June 9, 1877 – March 13, 1968 [a]) was an African-American artist who celebrated Afrocentric themes. At the fore of the Harlem Renaissance, Warrick was known for being a poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor of the black American experience.
Dedicated Librarianship, integral member of Harlem Renaissance, breaking the color barrier. Spouse. William Trent Andrews, Jr. Children. 1. Regina M. Anderson (May 21, 1901 – February 5, 1993) [1] was an American playwright and librarian. Influenced by Ida B. Wells and the lack of Black history teachings in school, Anderson became a key ...
1. Signature. 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. His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a ...