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“Rebirth”: Key Figures of the Harlem
Renaissance
Dr. Robert F. Pace
Harlem street scene, neighbors sitting on a stoop.
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
I. Why a Rebirth?
II. Writers and Their Influence
1. Claude McKay
a. “If We Must Die”
b. Home to Harlem (1929), Banjo
(1929), and Banana Bottom (1933)
c. A Long Way from Home (1937)
2. Alaine Locke
a. The New Negro (1925)
3. Langston Hughes
a. The Weary Blues (1926)
b. “The Negro Speaks of
Rivers”
4. Jean Toomer
a.Cane (1923)
5. James Weldon Johnson
a. “Lift Every Voice and
Sing”
b. The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored
Man (1912)
c. God's Trombones (1927); “The
Creation”
6. Countee Cullen
a. "Yet Do I Marvel"
b. Color (1925), Caroling Dusk
(1927), Copper Sun (1927), The Ballad of the Brown Girl (1927)
c. One Way to Heaven (1934)
7. Zora Neal Hurston
Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), Mules
and Men (1935), Tell My Horse (1937),
Their Eyes Were Watching God
(1937), Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939),
Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Seraph
on the Suwanee (1948)
III. Harlem and the Jazz Age |
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Pictures from the Harlem Renaissance:
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Claude McKay
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Langston Hughes
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Jean Toomer
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James Weldon Johnson
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Countee Cullen
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Zora Neal Hurston
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Brief Bibliography of the Harlem Renaissance
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Anderson, Jervis. This Was Harlem. New York: Farrar, Straus,
Giroux, 1982.
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| Aptheker, Herbert. A Documentary History
of the Negro People in the United States, 1910-1932. Secaucus, NJ:
Citadel, 1973. |
| Bontemps, Arna, ed. The Harlem Renaissance
Remembered. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1972. |
| Butcher, Margaret. The Negro in American
Culture, Based on Materials Left by Alain Locke. New York: Knopf,
1956. |
| Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Harlem Renaissance.
New York: Oxford University, 1971. |
| Kramer, Victor, ed. The Harlem Renaissance
Re-Examined. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1987. |
| Lewis, David L. When Harlem Was In Vogue.
New York: Knopf, 1981. |
| Martin, Tony. Literary Garveyism: Garvey,
Black Arts, and the Harlem Renaissance. Dover, Massachusetts: Majority,
1983. |
| Osofsky, Gilbert. Harlem: The Making
of a Ghetto: Negro New York, 1890-1930. New York: Harper, 1963. |
| Ottley, Roi. New World A-Coming. New
York: Arno, 1968. |
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Schoener, Allan. Harlem on My Mind. New York: Random, 1968.
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Reference Works
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| Cederholm, Theresa D. Afro-American
Artists: A Bio-Bibliographical Dictionary. Boston: Boston Public
Library, 1973. |
| Fairbanks, Carol and Eugene A., comps.
Black American Fiction: A Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow,
1978. |
| Kellner, Bruce. The Harlem Renaissance:
A Historical Dictionary of the Era. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
1984. |
| Logan, Rayford W. and Michael R. Winston,
eds. Dictionary of American Negro Biography. New York: Norton, 1982. |
| Mapp, Edward. Dictionary of Blacks in
the Performing Arts. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1990. |
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Perry, Margaret. Silence to the Drums: A Survey of the literature
of the Harlem Renaissance. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1976.
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Web sites:
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| Harlem Renaissance Poets: http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/poetryindex.html |
| Encyclopedia Britannica: http://harlem.eb.com/ |
| Harlem Renaissance: http://www.fatherryan.org/harlemrenaissance/ |
| Harlem Renaissance Painters: http://www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/painters.html |
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Writers of the Harlem Renaissance: http://www.readingwoman.com/harlem.html
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