List of figures from the Harlem Renaissance
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 of notable figures from the Harlem Renaissance includes intellectuals and activists, writers, artists, and performers who were closely associated with the movement.
Intellectuals, activists, journalists[edit]
Writers[edit]
- Lewis Grandison Alexander[3]
- Sterling A. Brown[1]
- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.[1]
- Countee Cullen[1]
- Alice Dunbar-Nelson[1]
- Jessie Redmon Fauset[1]
- Rudolph Fisher[1]
- Edythe Mae Gordon[4]
- Eugene Gordon (writer)[5]
- Angelina Weld Grimke[1]
- Robert Hayden[2]
- Gladys May Casely Hayford[1]
- Ariel Williams Holloway[1]
- Langston Hughes[1]
- Zora Neale Hurston[1]
- Georgia Douglas Johnson[2]
- Helene Johnson[2]
- James Weldon Johnson[1]
- Nella Larsen[1]
- Claude McKay[1]
- May Miller[1]
- Effie Lee Newsome[1]
- Richard Bruce Nugent[1]
- Esther Popel[1]
- George Schuyler[2]
- Eulalie Spence[1]
- Anne Spencer[2]
- Wallace Thurman[1]
- Jean Toomer[1]
- Carl Van Vechten[1]
- Eric Walrond[1]
Performers and entertainers[edit]
Musicians and composers[edit]
- Marian Anderson[1]
- Louis Armstrong[1]
- Count Basie[1]
- Gladys Bentley[1]
- Eubie Blake[1]
- Cab Calloway[1]
- The Chocolate Dandies[1]
- Dorothy Dandridge[1]
- Duke Ellington[1]
- Adelaide Hall[1]
- Roland Hayes[1]
- Fletcher Henderson[1]
- Billie Holiday[1]
- Lena Horne[1]
- Hall Johnson[1]
- James Price Johnson[2]
- Moms Mabley[1]
- Pigmeat Markham[1]
- Florence Mills[1]
- Jelly Roll Morton[1]
- Ma Rainey[1]
- Noble Sissle[1]
- Bessie Smith[1]
- Victoria Spivey[2]
- William Grant Still[1]
- Fats Waller[1]
- Ethel Waters[1]
- Chick Webb[1]
- Bert Williams[1]
- Fess Williams[1]
Visual artists[edit]
- Charles Alston[1]
- Henry Bannarn[9]
- Richmond Barthé
- Romare Bearden[1]
- Leslie Bolling, wood carvings[1]
- Miguel Covarrubias, caricaturist[1]
- Beauford Delaney[1]
- Aaron Douglas[1]
- Edwin A. Harleston[2]
- Palmer Hayden[2]
- Sargent Johnson[1]
- William H. Johnson (painter)[1]
- Lois Mailou Jones[1]
- Jacob Lawrence[1]
- Norman Lewis (artist)[1]
- Archibald Motley[1]
- Augusta Savage[1]
- James Van Der Zee
- Meta Warrick Fuller
- Laura Wheeler Waring
- Hale Woodruff
References[edit]
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- ^ "Lewis Grandison Alexander". The Black Renaissance in Washington.
- ^ Nurick, Russell Jay. "Edythe Mae Gordon". In African American Authors 1745-1945: Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, Emmanuel Sampath Nelson, ed. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000, pp. 184–87.
- ^ Elizee, Andre. "Eugene Gordon Papers". New York Public Library website, April 2006.
- ^ "Obituary: Anise Boyer Burris". New York Amsterdam News. October 23, 2008. p. 37 – via ProQuest.
- ^ StreetSwing Dance History Archives
- ^ "The Four Step Brothers". Footnotesontap.com. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
- ^ "Henry Bannarn". Minneapolis Institute of Art