The Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance

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The U.S. Postal stamp honoring the Jazz Age.

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Print Resources

Most print resources on the Harlem Renaissance will be located in 700, 800s, 920s, and Biography

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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~ Click Authors by Type > Select Harlem Renaissance in Literary Movement or Time Period > Click Search > Produces a list of writers of the Harlem Renaissance.

~ 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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Internet Resources

Harlem Renaissance Resources

African American World: Harlem Renaissance ~ from the PBS documentary

Art Cyclopedia's Harlem Renaissance

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

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: 2/11/08 Contact: nmellendorf@maine207.org