Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance

Lawrence, Jacob (1917–2000) One of America’s most important artists and the most influential of African-American painters. Lawre ...

Universal Life Insurance in 1927. An active com- munity member and leader of the Republican Party of Tennessee, he also was a me ...

Bibliography Wood, Lillian. Let My People Go.Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern, 1922. Lewis, Frederick Allen (1890–1954) A Bosto ...

Lewis published frequently throughout and after the Harlem Renaissance. He also supported the efforts to sustain the literary ex ...

their important role in raising public interest in the arts and providing essential exposure to historical subjects and contempo ...

Bibliography Burkett, Randall. Black Redemption: Churchmen Speak for the Garvey Movement.Philadelphia: Temple Univer- sity Press ...

During the Harlem Renaissance era, the Lin- coln School for Nurses was located at East 141st Street between Concord Avenue and S ...

Memorial Library honors one of the school’s most distinguished alumni. Bibliography Bond, Horace Mann. Education for Freedom: A ...

Hazzard’s play is an incisive critique of assimi- lation and its limits. “Little Virgin, The” Langston Hughes(1927) A vivid shor ...

fused, the paperwork for the sale had been pro- cessed. The new owner, Bennett Cerf, renamed the Modern Library division and cal ...

Camden, New Jersey, schools. His paternal grand- father, Ishmael Locke, studied at Cambridge Uni- versity and was a teacher and ...

such as Americans All, Immigrants All(1939), and historical works such as Frederick Douglass: A Biog- raphy of Anti-Slavery(1935 ...

style and the naivest egotism” and that McKay’s re- jection of “all possible loyalties amounts to a self- imposed apostasy” (Coo ...

Locke was deeply committed to adult educa- tion and used his membership in the Associates in Negro Folk Education to strengthen ...

Logan enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War I. He served with the 372nd Infantry and achieved the rank of lieutenant before ...

Published in 1926, Lonesome Roadincluded his well-known folk drama IN ABRAHAM’S BOSOM and the plays White Dresses, The Hot Iron, ...

African American Magazines in the Twentieth Cen- tury.Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1979. van Notten, Eleonore. Wallace ...

University. With her husband George Love, she lived in Jakarta, Indonesia, for a year. While he worked as a technical adviser, s ...

prejudice. Historian RAYFORDLOGANcharacterized the brutal era of violence that flourished after Re- construction as the American ...

the passage of the bill. They argued shamelessly that antilynching legislation was unconstitutional and that it interfered with ...