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Most
print resources on the Harlem Renaissance will be located
in 700, 800s, 920s, and
Biography
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Print
resources on specific topics may be found by searching the Online
Catalog for books.
 ~ eBooks from Gale Virtual Reference Library on the Harlem Renaissance
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Databases:
Scroll over an image for a complete description.
 ~ Biographies on individuals such as Langston Hughes,
Louis Armstrong, and Aaron Douglas
 ~ Example searches: Harlem Renaissance, James Weldon Johnson, 1920s Jazz, Duke
Ellington
 ~ Examples searches: Harlem Renaissance, Countee Cullen,
Zora Neale Hurston, New Negro, 1920s Jazz.
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 ~ Example searches: "Harlem Renaissance," Langston Hughes, and Louis Armstrong. Literary criticism, biographies, book reviews, and full-text poetry, short stories, speeches, plays and other forms of literature. The combined resources of Literature Resource Center and LitFinder in one interface.
 ~ Search examples: Harlem Renaissance, African American
poets, African Americans in Literature, African American artists,
African American musicians
 ~ Search examples: Harlem Renaissance, Jazz 1920s
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Harlem
Renaissance Resources
- Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
- African
American World: Harlem Renaissance
~ from the PBS documentary
- Art
Cyclopedia's Harlem Renaissance
- Depression Era Murals of Aaron Douglas
- Drop Me Off in Harlem ~ Information, videos, images, and audio clips of the artists, dancers, actors, writers, and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance. From the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
- Harlem:
1900-1940: An African American Community
~ Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York
Public Library.
- Harlem:
Mecca of the New Negro
~ Contains a facsimile of the March 1925 Survey Graphic magazine
special issue about the Harlem Renaissance. The issue features
essays, stories, and poems by Alain Locke, W.E.B. Du Bois,
Arthur Schomburg, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and others.
Includes original advertisements. From the University of Virginia
Electronic Text Center.
- Harlem Renaissance Multimedia Resource ~ from John Carroll University
- Introduction
to the Harlem Renaissance: Literature ~ Paul P. Reuben,
Professor, California State University, Stanislaus
- Jazz:
A History of America's Music
~ Information based on the Ken Burns/PBS film and book.
- Jazz
Age Culture ~ from Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg,
Kansas
- Jazz
Roots
~ Early jazz history
- Langston Hughes at 100 ~ an exhibition of the Beinecke Library, Yale University.
- Poets
of the Harlem Renaissance ~ from the Academy of American
Poets
- Rhapsodies
in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance ~ An introduction
to this period of the flowering of the arts: music, painting,
dance, and literature in the black community in Harlem. Included
are backgrounds for a few artists, a bibliography, and a chronology
N.
Mellendorf, Librarian. Maine South High School, Library Resource Center,
Park Ridge, IL
Last update: 1/28/09 Contact: nmellendorf@maine207.org
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