Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance

firelight, dancing, dancing, dancing, and the strong black arms of a belted chief.” Hunton’s story anticipates the powerful im- ...

Rhodes Scholarship The prestigious academic scholarship established and named after Cecil Rhodes, the white British businessman, ...

Richardson, Willis (1889–1977) A talented and pioneering playwright who became the first African-American dramatist to see his w ...

20th-century mob rule and the threat of lynching. Richardson also developed an absorbing set of mythical, historical, and biblic ...

HALF-CENTURY magazine edited by Katherine Williams Irvin. “Rich Man, Poor Man,” which ap- peared in the May 1920 issue of The Ha ...

Bibliography Clum, John. Ridgely Torrence.New York: Twayne, 1972. Ridgely Torrence Papers, Rare Books and Special Collec- tions, ...

EUGENEGORDON. Her works included the grip- ping June 1928 short story “HEMUSTTHINKIT OUT,” in which a white man grapples with hi ...

South. His critique of northern life, especially the world of Harlem, was part of his effort to suggest that African Americans d ...

Teacher’s College in 1920. She promptly became the first African American hired by the city’s Pres- byterian Hospital when she w ...

and John Henry.In London he appeared in the title role in productions of William Shakespeare’s Othello. Robeson’s talents made i ...

Rogers, Joel Augustus (ca. 1880–1966) A Jamaican-born journalist, novelist, and historian whose studies of African-American hist ...

Theatre on BROADWAY, had a brief run of only seven performances. It was directed by Margaret Hewes, EMJOBASSHE, and Stanley Prat ...

Division of Negro Literature, History, and Prints was founded. The collection received a major do- nation of materials from bibl ...

Rowland was born in Texas but spent her high school years in Oklahoma. She attended college as an older student and pursued conc ...

Sacrifice Thelma Myrtle Duncan(1930) An earnest play about sacrifices and honor by THELMADUNCANthat was included in PLAYS AND PA ...

Nichols, Charles H., ed. Arna Bontemps–Langston Hughes Letters, 1925–1967. New York: Paragon House, 1990. Saint Mark’s Methodist ...

soldier and toward the shocked white hordes who have been deluded in their tributes to the un- known soldier. Johnson renders th ...

firewood” (250). One evening, she takes in Jim Hammer, a fugitive from the law “with pale brown eyes in which there was an odd m ...

the Harlem Renaissance. The organization hoped to produce annual issues and was quite firm in its resolve only to circulate, rat ...

by members who attained national visibility such as LEWISALEXANDER,WARINGCUNEY,ALVIRA HAZZARD,FLORENCE HARMON,HELENE JOHN- SON, ...