Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance

known now as Dillard University. After two years there, she transferred to NORTHWESTERNUNIVER- SITYand earned her B.A. in Englis ...

but finds out that he has been victimized by Henry Patmore, a villainous saloon keeper who has a vendetta against Merritt becaus ...

Walrond immigrated to America in 1918 when he was 21 years old. He settled in New York City and began attending classes at the C ...

only collection of short fiction in 1926. Six ap- peared in Opportunity,and in addition to his liter- ary debut in The New Repub ...

Latin American immigrants, and his writings re- flect his earnest efforts to investigate alternative political philosophies that ...

Washington’s endorsement of industrial training, was established first to train African-American teachers. Robert Russa Moton su ...

Shannon, Alexander. The Negro in Washington: A Study in Race Amalgamation.New York: W. Neale, 1930. Ways of White Folks, The Lan ...

It starred Regina Taylor in the role of Cora Jenkins and Cherry Jones as Mrs. Studevants. Hughes scholar Faith Berry proposes t ...

performance, longing, and desire. Other poems present a more studied and quietly intimate vision of Harlem and the women who sur ...

story closes as Watson, disoriented by his betrayal and his own willingness to marry into the race he despises, boards a French ...

Chicago, the first African-American suffrage orga- nization. She was an impassioned clubwoman and with colleagues such as MARYCH ...

oped her love of drama and pursued it with great success. In 1927 she was cast in the original perfor- mance of DUBOSE HEYWARD’s ...

were STERLINGBROWN, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, and MARGARETWALKER. Advertised as a “Literary Quarterly,” the magazine was n ...

gathered outside the chapel to celebrate the dy- namic and outgoing authoress. West died in August 1998. Scholar Henry Louis Gat ...

at Trinity College, now Duke University. He col- laborated with Walter Clinton Jackson, a professor at the North Carolina Colleg ...

book while abroad in France on a GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP. White was solicited to contribute works to major Harlem Renaissance–era ...

Wiggins saw her work included in the important 1925 Texas collection, Heralding Dawn,edited by J. Mason Brewer. That same year, ...

poems and fiction under the Italian pseudonym of Bertuccio Dantino. He also completed Exile,an Italian drama, and Sheriff’s Chil ...

Hill used works such as “Ode to Patriotism,” “A Call to Poets,” and “To All Leaders of Men” to ex- hort readers and poets to deb ...

intellectual and literary community during the Harlem Renaissance. He collaborated with ALAIN LOCKEat the Associated Publishers, ...