Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance

bitter dimension of the blues, which he links with a view of humankind that he shares with writers like Sandburg, Frost, and Edw ...

but eager to work. Despite his desire, however, he is unable to secure a job. He is determined, though, to refrain from the pote ...

by REGINAANDREWSand W. E. B. DUBOIS, per- formed FOOL’SERRANDin the Little Theatre Tour- nament, a well-known annual national co ...

began a lengthy career as a librarian. She worked at the Jones Memorial Library and also at the DUN- BARHIGHSCHOOLlibrary until ...

official publication of the NAACP. The prizes in literature and art attracted numerous submissions from established and emerging ...

academia. He ran for Congress and was an en- thusiastic Progressive Party member. He taught comparative literature at Columbia, ...

first prize was awarded in 1915, and the organiza- tion continues to honor accomplished American men and women of color. Spingar ...

McKay republished the volume in the United States in 1922 under the new title of HARLEM SHADOWS.There were plans to produce a si ...

with partners who are determined to accomplish the killing of the president whom they regard as a Negro-lover. Much to the disma ...

tions, Kelly imagines himself as a “starter” but only “one step better’n the man who runs the [eleva- tor].” After he flirts wit ...

pieces, symphonic works, and operas to spirituals. Still worked with leading artists, writers, and enter- tainers of the Harlem ...

ness that his whiteness is prompting his compan- ions to stare at him. The piece closes with a terse, but apparently enlightenin ...

Bibliography Hull, Gloria. Love, Sex, and Poetry: Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance.Bloomington: Indiana University ...

gender. The volume, whose subtitle is “Stories about Negro Life in America,” contains stories that shed light on the “black-belt ...

intellectual. He became the first African American to enroll at Johns Hopkins University, a pioneer in the field of sociology, a ...

dom’s Children on the March(1943), was performed at that year’s graduation ceremony at Douglass High School. Additional later wo ...

as Sue Jones collapses, and strains from the nearby church repeat the phrase “Lord have mercy.” Johnson completed the play in th ...

home, intensify when he takes a mistress. He in- tends to dislodge Delia from the home that she has made, the place where she ha ...

Taboo Mary Hoyt Wiborg(1922) A short-lived play about voodoo, curses, and slav- ery by Mary Hoyt Wiborg. The show opened in Apri ...

(NAACP) and the NATIONALASSOCIATION OF COLORED WOMEN (NACW). When W. E. B. DUBOIS, WILLIAMMONROETROTTER, and others met in Buffa ...