Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance

facility that embraced the principles of the Montessori system. She was respected for her work with art and her use of art in th ...

Nearing, Scott (1883–1983) A teacher, conservationist, and eloquent and com- mitted pacifist who believed in the power of living ...

threatening principles and devastating history of colonial invasion and African cultural suppres- sion. Césaire’s use of the ter ...

efforts that would produce racial equality and called for unity, an intensification of race pride, black political autonomy, and ...

GRAPHICHarlem issue and the subsequent anthol- ogy THE NEW NEGRO: AN INTERPRETATION (1925) that ALAINLOCKEhad edited. Schuyler’s ...

concluded with an exhortation to young writers of color whom, he declared, “now intend to express our individual dark-skinned se ...

into the troupe known as the Negro Experimental Theatre. It attracted the attention of other influ- ential figures such as W. E. ...

Bibliography Brown, Sterling. The Negro in American Fiction.Albany, N.Y.: The J. B. Lyon Press, 1937. Gabbin, Joanne. Sterling A ...

and the relationship among art, history, and realism continued throughout the Harlem Renaissance. The tensions between more cons ...

Hughes, Langston. The Negro Mother, and Other Dra- matic Recitations, with decorations by Prentiss Taylor. 1931; reprint, Salem, ...

with genius-quickening power into the souls of Poe and Lanier, Dunbar and Cotter.” It is “to them, for whom any monument in ston ...

works by Murphy and other prominent writers such as LANGSTONHUGHES. With this work, Mur- phy established herself as one of the f ...

Hill, Robert, ed. The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers.Berkeley: University of California Press, ...

naissance, 1910–1927.New York: Palgrave Macmil- lan, 2002. “Nettleby’s New Year, The” Anita Scott Coleman(1920) A short story by ...

in African-American letters and research. ALAIN LOCKEedited and published the volume shortly after the acclaimed Harlem issue of ...

tributed to his friend Langston Hughes. He wrote immediately to Hughes, cautioning him about the legal aspects of republication ...

from fellow political editors such as MAXEAST- MANof The Masses. The magazine had a modest readership of fewer than 1,000 reader ...

DENS:POEMS OFOUTDOORS ANDINDOORS FOR SECONDGRADEREADERS(1940). The renowned artist Lois Maillou Jones provided the illustrations ...

forthright political poems, such as the “Ballad of Lenin” and “Song of Spain,” that exhorted workers to seize their rightful due ...

the prestigious medical facilities of the city. The in- tellectual circles attracted figures like JEAN TOOMER,LANGSTONHUGHES, an ...