Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance

328 M Macaulay Publishing Company A NEWYORKCITYpublishing company. Its editor in chief was Lee Furman, an aspiring writer who al ...

Morand’s work illustrated the deep fascination with African-American culture and the problem- atic tendency toward primitive, st ...

opera singer at the new Metropolitan Opera House. Her grandmother and mother, in the audience, are able to share in the achievem ...

NEGROmovement, provided unprecedented op- portunities for publishers, potential patrons, writ- ers, and artists to meet and to n ...

1900s; three books of poems appeared between 1906 and 1910, and his first Harlem Renaissance– era volume was published in 1916. ...

in the December 1924 and January 1925 issues of THECRISIS. Written in the style of his famous dialect stories and earlier publis ...

communities. She herself pursued fieldwork and lived with members of the Plains Indian tribes dur- ing the early 1900s. During t ...

modern in her ideas, in her knowledge of books and the theater, of Harlem, and of everything then taking place in the world” (Be ...

Caroline Bond Day, and EVADYKES, one of the first women of color to earn a Ph.D. in an American in- stitution. MARIONCUTHBERT, E ...

THE CRISIS Literary Contest. CHARLES CHES- NUTT, Otelia Cromwell, and Ernest Poole selected “Swamp Moccasin” as the first-place ...

literary circles. She attended the Emerson College of Drama and graduated in 1922. She earned a master’s degree in education fro ...

American poetry in their Detroit home. On one occasion, he and Margaret Danner, a poet-in- residence at Wayne State University, ...

some four books of poetry, four novels, an autobi- ography, a social history of HARLEM, and several essays in diverse publicatio ...

lenges that he faced while on the police force. “Let me confess it at once,” he wrote, “I had not in me the stuff that goes to t ...

poems from McKay for the magazine that he hoped “would reach and discover the obscure tal- ents of America who were perhaps disc ...

mous 1953 publication, Selected Poems.ARNABON- TEMPS, who was involved in the arrangements for the evening, was struck by that f ...

how dear they are or how thou art their mother. This one brief day forget thy children dear, and after that lament; for though t ...

Meek Mose Frank Wilson(1928) The BROADWAY play by FRANK WILSON, who would later see his play Walk Together Chillun (1936) staged ...

Stenerson, Douglas. Critical Essays on H. L. Mencken. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1987. Yardley, Jonathan, ed. My Life as Author and Edi ...

The Messengeroffered readers an unapologetic forceful critique of social policy and current events. It provided another importan ...