Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance

Packer Collegiate Institute and went on to pursue studies in economics at RADCLIFFECOLLEGE. She attended the school from 1891 th ...

entitled The Truth About Lynching: Its Causes and Effects. In the years immediately following the Harlem Renaissance, Owen also ...

Pace Phonograph Company Established in 1921, the Pace Phonograph Com- pany was the first African-American recording company in t ...

in premedicine at COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY,FISK UNIVERSITY, and HOWARDUNIVERSITYbefore be- ginning law school at NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. ...

approached by the Reverend Elmer Nicholas, a po- etry enthusiast. The Indiana minister negotiated with Purnell, who agreed to se ...

45 years old, went on to become a professor at University College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His mother never publicly revealed t ...

African-American couple who endure social os- tracism because their difference in skin tone prompts others to regard them as an ...

Mrs. John Bellew, is determined to maintain her newly resurrected friendship with Irene despite the risks to her social status, ...

(1903). Nathan Huggins, who draws parallels be- tween the works of Larsen and JESSIEFAUSET, notes that Larsen “moved away from t ...

The leading role was played by Richard Barry Harrison. Harrison was a formerly enslaved man who in 1895 became the first African ...

estate when her husband was unable to oversee af- fairs, and she succeeded in maintaining the large farming operations and its e ...

ding, had one child, Elisabeth Ann. In New York, Petry joined the staff of the AMSTERDAMNEWS and began to realize her dream of b ...

The city’s history of excellent educational op- portunities also enriched the lives of Harlem Re- naissance figures who lived th ...

Bibliography Andrews, William, ed. Bursting Bonds: Enlarged Edition of The Heir of Slaves: The Autobiography of a ‘New Negro.’Bl ...

regularly, to share their work, and to participate in forums that sustained their creativity. Bibliography Jubilee, Vincent. Phi ...

Bibliography Rauchfuss, Christine Gray. Willis Richardson: Forgotten Pioneer of African American Drama. Westport, Conn.: Greenwo ...

academy, she neglects to identify herself, thinking that “[a]rtists were noted for their broad-minded- ness” and “were the first ...

time” (Davis, 303). Other critics, however, note that the coincidental ending, which evokes the tra- ditional American sentiment ...

of death and Johnson’s steadfast conviction that only love can preserve human dignity” [Tate, lx]. Indeed, the play is one of se ...

Figgs’s own notes in NUGGETS OFGOLD(1921), a subsequent volume of poetry, Poetic Pearlssold well and enjoyed “enormous sales.” I ...