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The Harlem Renaissance
A Slide Show
By Your (Nearly) Technologically
Savvy Professor,
Chris De Santis
Images of Harlem . . .
“A City Within A City”
The Black Yankees
Flapper
Girls
A Parade in Harlem
Protest March
Shoe
Shine
Man
Soldiers on Parade
A Harlem Wedding Party
A Wealthy Harlemite
Madame C.J. Walker
Marcus
Garvey
Marcus Garvey
UNIA Parade
Music and Dance in Harlem
The Cotton Club
Bessie
Smith
Bessie Sings
The Backwater
Blues
Billie Holliday
Cab Calloway
Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington Orchestra
A Young Duke
One more of
Duke
Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters
Backstage
Fletcher
Henderson
Florence Mills
The FROGS!
The Fabulous Josephine Baker
Josephine with
Minstrels
Louis Armstrong!
Louis one more time . . .
Singing “What Did I Do to
be So Black and Blue?”
Minstrel
Show
Mr. Bojangles
James
Reese
Europe
Bill
“Bojangles”
Robinson
Paul
Robeson
Sissel and Blake
Harlem Renaissance Art
Augusta
Savage
Miguel
Covarrubias
Book Cover
Cover of
The Crisis
Book Cover
Book Cover
Book Cover
Jacob Reis
Born Peyton Hedgeman, he was given the name Palmer Hayden by his white commanding
sergeant during World War I. In his t own of brith, Wide Water, Virginia, he was often referred to
as a self trained artist. He was a studen t at Cooper Union in New York and pursued independent
studies at Boothbay Art Colony in Maine. He studied and paint ed in France, where he lived for
some years.Hayden's reputat ion emanates from his realist ic depict ions of folklore and Black
historical events. He, like Douglas, was also among t he first Black American artists to use
African subjects and designs in his paint ing.
The Big Bend Tunnel
from the John Henry Series
The Museum of African American Art Los Angeles.
Blue Nile
Hatch Billops Collection, Inc., New York
The Janitor who Paints
The National Museum of American Art
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C.
Jeunesse
Watercolor on paper, 14 x 17"
Collection Dr. Meredith F. Sirmans,
New York
William H. Johnson entered the Harlem Renaissance during its making. He came to New York in 1918 from
Florence, South Carolina, to embark on his career. He became a student at the National Academy of Design.
He was educated there for five years, during which he learned from greats such as George Luks and Charles
Hawthorne. He then traveled to places in North Africa and Europe to paint and find residence. It was by the
suggestion of Hawthorne that he traveled to Paris in 1826, where he settled, painted, and studied the works of
modern European masters.
Girl in a Red Dress, ca. 1936
Self-Portrait, 1929
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
National Museum of American Art
Chain Gang
National Museum of American Art
Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.
Lois Mailou Jones was a pioneering artist of the Harlem Renaissance.
Born in New England, her life was still clouded by the prejudices of an
everyday African American life. She began her career after attending the
School of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. Afterwards, she went
through the racial barriers to exhibit her works to the world. She
persevered through many roadblocks and prejudices, without ever
losing her passion to express herself through art.
Fishing Smacks
Menemsha, Massachusettes, 1932
Negro Youth, 1929
Authors of the Harlem
Renaissance
Claude McKay
Claude
McKay
If We Must Die
If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
--Claude McKay
Countee
Cullen
An older
Countee
James
Weldon
Johnson
James
Weldon
Johnson
Jean
Toomer
Sterling
Brown
Reads . . .
“Ma Rainey”
Jessie
Fauset
Langston Hughes!!!
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (to W. E. B. B. DuBois)
I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow
of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went
down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn
all golden in the sunset.
--Langston Hughes
Nella
Larsen
Nella
Larsen
Nella
One more
time
W. E. B. Du Bois
Du Bois
Zora Neale Hurston!!!
“You May Go
But This Will
Bring You Back”
The
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