Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with the Harlem literary renaissance of the early-twentieth century

An alphabetical guide to the major writers, works, organizations, and locations associated with the African-American artistic movement of the 1920s, including Z

A broad artistic movement of the 1920s and early '30s, the Harlem Renaissance was one of the most productive eras in American literary history. Concentrating on

From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renais

An interdisciplinary look at the Harlem Renaissance, it includes essays on the principal participants, those who defined the political, intellectual and cultura