Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance

THENEWYORKPUBLIC LIBRARY). It was there that librarians ERNESTINEROSE,NELLALARSEN, and REGINAANDREWSworked to create an em- powe ...

yellow journalism, a term that is used to describe the unseemly and wild promotional schemes that a newspaper uses to generate s ...

Jones, Adrienne Lash. Jane Edna Hunter: A Case Study of Black Leadership, 1910–1950.Brooklyn, N.Y.: Carl- son Publishers, 1990. ...

flood,” introduced a cautionary note about the value of self-restraint and the politics of survival in an aggressive world. The ...

Bibliography Bernard, Emily. Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten.New York: Knopf, 2001. B ...

Nomah, now orphaned, is a Catholic, as her deceased mother was. Distressed by the fact that her father’s body was not recovered ...

Whiting, Albert. Guardians of the Flame: Historically Black Colleges Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.Wash- ington, D.C.: American ...

what seemed to [him] a family more typical of Negro life in Kansas.” Not Without Laughterwas an autobiographical venture, one in ...

important elements of life. He does not descend into the tantalizing world about which his father would sing or into the amoral ...

ventive nature. A light-skinned man, he did exper- iment with passing as white but did not pursue this for any extended period o ...

Wirth, Thomas. Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Se- lections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent. Durham: Duke University ...

399 O Oberlin Conservatory of Music Located in Oberlin, Ohio, the highly regarded con- servatory founded in 1865 is the oldest c ...

Chicago, the urban city known to many as Canaan, celebrated as a “[l]usty, virile, and bois- terous city... city of the high, th ...

Born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, to Francis O’Ke- effe, a farmer, and his wife, Ida Ten Eyck Totto, O’Keeffe attended the Art Ins ...

and demanding conditions that domestic servants, butlers, and maids faced in the workplace. Pub- lished in the May 1923 issue of ...

reach for the patient woman of color. “You must sit quietly without a chip,” she writes, “quiet; quiet. Like Buddha—who brown li ...

later life. The couple settled in Danville, Califor- nia, where O’Neill became a reclusive figure. His career as a playwright be ...

Four years after the publication of One Way to Heaven,Cullen prepared a dramatic version of the novel. His play of 10 scenes, de ...

Oppenheim became the superintendent of the He- brew Technical School for Girls. His radical ideas about education, however, prom ...

and additional publications. In 1924, the year of the first contest, first-place winners included JOHN MATHEUS,LANGSTONHUGHES, a ...