Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance

provide American readers with evidence of African-American heroism, high morality, and civic pride. Tanner, Henry Ossawa (1859–1 ...

Johnson(1967), and The Other Toussaint: A Post- Revolutionary Black(1981). Bibliography Tarry, Ellen. The Third Door: The Autobi ...

Harlem Renaissance, and a powerful African- American feminist bildungsroman. Hurston completed the manuscript in less than two m ...

to Eatonville, and it is there, on the back steps of her house, that she retraces the phases of her epic journey aloud with Phoe ...

Cronin, Gloria, ed. Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston. New York: G. K. Hall & Co., 1998. Hemenway, Robert. Zora Neale Hu ...

comes too completely and too abruptly” and that “she embraces an ideal external to the novel proper, but she underscores its con ...

and the deaths of two infants. Despite her hus- band’s toil and Malinda’s tireless efforts to take in laundry, the couple are un ...

tionist, and Garland. She was a member of the NA- TIONALASSOCIATION FOR THEADVANCEMENT OFCOLOREDPEOPLEand an active participant ...

Thompson’s connection to the Harlem Re- naissance began in the mid-1920s, when, after re- locating to Chicago, she came into con ...

Harlem Renaissance. She joined the International Worker’s Order, an organization dedicated to pro- tecting workers’ rights. In 1 ...

home, desperate to escape the three hunters on his trail. “The black man who was running so wildly was only a little terror-mad ...

appetite for books also made him a formidable writer, and later in his life his friends marveled at the speed at which he read. ...

when it came to personal matters” and one who “fended off every attempt to probe into his inner self and did this with such an u ...

lively West Coast world. He completed Tomorrow’s Children,a provocative and controversial screen- play about poverty and enforce ...

“Tin Can” Marita Bonner(1934) A bleak short story about delinquency and the lim- its of salvation by MARITABONNER. Published in ...

come from pity.” Dejected by Flo’s refusal, Red Boy leaves for some two years. When Red Boy eventually returns to the North, he ...

Corps d’Afrique (a legendary Civil War regiment from Louisiana) and a popular elected official whose posts included the lieutena ...

her relationship with Toomer and maintained con- tact with Toomer and Content once they were married. Toomer and Content settled ...

Born in Xenia, Ohio, he was the oldest child of Findley David Torrence, a former Civil War offi- cer and a lumber merchant, and ...

dence. According to Ako, Hill’s Haitian hero is “an individual who hardly breaks his word... someone who knows how to repay past ...