Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance

The emerging artist E. Simms Campbell provided the illustrations. Popo and Fifinawas the first of many books for children that B ...

PorgyDuBose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward (1927) A drama cowritten by DUBOSEHEYWARD and DOROTHYHEYWARDthat was based on DuBose Hey ...

“There Were Three” is a disturbing account of a single mother named Lucille and her two chil- dren, Little Lou and Robert. Lucil ...

Vincent, Theodore, ed. Voices of a Black Nation: Political Journalism in the Harlem Renaissance.Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Pres ...

style, staging only noises that suggest that all three have fallen victim to the well. The play is a straightforward glimpse int ...

Renaissance–era uses of dialect in stories about the social aspirations of African Americans. Its use of dialect introduce a com ...

students in 1969. In 2001 Shirley Tilghman became the first woman president of the institution. The playwright EUGENEO’NEILL, au ...

The founders included Hutchins Hapgood, EMILY BIGELOW HAPGOOD, and MABEL DODGE, and later members included EUGENEO’NEILL. George ...

Quicksand Nella Larsen(1928) The first of two novels by NELLALARSEN.Quick- sandis a compelling story about a young woman who str ...

Larsen, who published the novel with the AL- FREDA. KNOPF, dedicated the work to her hus- band. She also included a telling epig ...

Rachel Angelina Weld Grimké(1916) A sobering feminist play about LYNCHING, racism, and African-American domesticity by ANGELINA ...

white Christian nation—has deliberately set its curse upon the most beautiful—the most holy thing in life—motherhood!” Overcome ...

Kendall, Elaine. “Peculiar Institutions”: An Informal His- tory of the Seven Sister Colleges.New York: Putnam, 1976. McCord, Dav ...

President Roosevelt to issue executive orders that prohibited discrimination in the defense industry. In 1948 Randolph’s eloquen ...

Square neighborhood of New York City, received major support from the American Socialist Society. The school’s mission to educat ...

Rawlings struggled with her desire to develop a friendship with the talented writer and the un- yielding racism that frowned on ...

Weldon Johnson Professor of Literature and Cre- ative Writing at Hampton Institute. In 1949 the two-time GUGGENHEIMFELLOWSHIP wi ...

olence was prompted in large part by the return of African-American veterans from World War I. Evidence of African-American patr ...

Reid’s publications during the Harlem Renais- sance included a number of works on African Americans, labor, education, and famil ...

Glacier Park in Montana and between 1934 and 1937 offered art classes there during the summer. The historic March 1925 SURVEY GR ...