Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance

468 Savage, Augusta Christine Fells “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” the impressive sculpture that Augusta Savage crafted for the 19 ...

at the Harlem Art Center, one of the largest WPA-sponsored organizations of the day. Her in- terests also included politics, and ...

writing, with an emphasis on the short story, in the Southwest. Scarborough was an energetic scholar and pursued opportunities t ...

pressive Division of Negro Literature, History, and Prints at the HARLEMBRANCH OF THENEWYORK PUBLICLIBRARY. Born in San Juan, Pu ...

Arthur Schomburg died of complications from an infection on June 10, 1938. He was buried in Brooklyn at the Cypress Hills Cemete ...

Bibliography Leak, Jeffrey, ed. Rac(e)ing To the Right: Selected Essays of George S. Schuyler.Knoxville: University of Ten- ness ...

face— / Its court, too weak to stand against a mob, / Its people’s heart, too small to hold a sob.” The portraits of victims and ...

Darrow, the legendary criminal defense attorney, to defend the nine accused. WALTERWHITEof the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVA ...

sees him race out of the apartment building and down toward the river and a freighter that is just moving out from the shore. Da ...

Santa Claus Landwas a short two-act play for children and featured a governess named Alice and her three charges, a young girl n ...

“Seven Years for Rachel”Theophilus Lewis (1924) A lengthy story by THEOPHILUSLEWISthat ap- peared in three installments of the T ...

Willie, Charles, and Ronald Edmonds, eds. Black Col- leges in America: Challenge, Development, Survival. New York: Teachers Coll ...

ancestries. In his tribute to “the songs of black men” and to the “faces of black women,” Silvera reveled in the idea that what ...

PROVINCETOWNPLAYERS, led to their immediate recruitment of Robeson and his subsequent ap- pearance in EUGENE O’NEILL’s ALL GOD’S ...

of enslavement. The author’s foreword reveals the intensity of Schuyler’s hopes for the novel and for its impact on many nations ...

bility that emerge in her novels. “The Sleeper Wakes” is a substantial meditation on the power of self-assertion and reclamation ...

“Smoke, Lilies, and Jade” Richard Bruce Nugent(1926) A daring, homoerotic story by RICHARD BRUCE NUGENTpublished in the first an ...

and 1848” and graduated from the Sorbonne in 1925. The demonstrated excellence of several Harlem Renaissance figures resulted in ...

eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.” He continued, noting ...

testable desire to move on: “Ain’t no call at all, sweet woman / Fo’ to carry on—/ Jes’ my name and jes’ my habit / To be Long G ...