Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance
a millionaire. He used his money to begin and to maintain the Barnes Collection, an impressive array of Impressionist and post-I ...
Basshe, Em Jo A playwright whose gender was debated by the New York City columnists who reviewed the 1927 play EARTH.The play fe ...
1934 Imitation of Lifeas the domestic servant and business partner of the character played by Claudette Colbert. The film was ba ...
POETRY (1922) and COUNTEE CULLEN’s edited collection CAROLING DUSK (1925), as well as AMERICANMERCURY,THECRISIS,THEMESSEN- GER, ...
writing society columns for the PITTSBURGH COURIER.Her career included a long-standing edi- torial position at the highly respec ...
The narrator, whose account is reminiscent of an anthropological report, finds himself alone on an “eerie road that stretched li ...
The white man dominates Africa. He takes pro- duce and lives, very much as he chooses. The yield of the earth for Europe and Ame ...
TUNITYarticle, “He Smashed the Color Line: A Sketch of Billy Pierce.” Bird, Bessie Calhoun (1906–unknown) A member of the ambiti ...
Bishop Payne Divinity School Named after Bishop Daniel A. Payne, a freeborn minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church a ...
Black BoyJim Tully and Frank Dazey(1926) A play in which the casting of PAULROBESONin the lead role appeared to be the only rede ...
after the storm has passed” (ll. 6–7). In “Valedic- tory” the speaker rallies in the face of desertion and vows to “write no mor ...
desire to have a career on the stage, writes to say that she will visit her friend whom she has not seen in some 12 years. Unfor ...
the descendant of free mulattos and the grand- daughter of Boise’s Blue Vein society, a group that is open only to people who ar ...
created and how black self-love, black empower- ment can triumph” (Haizlip, 14). Bibliography Haizlip, Shirley Taylor. Introduct ...
the Carthaginian princess, arrangements that they are sure could “weaken Africa” and “[e]nslave Nu- midia.” King Massinissa pres ...
miracle straight out of the skies.” In his commen- tary about the Harlem Renaissance period, John- son acknowledged the links be ...
Black No More: Being an Account of the Strange and Wonderful Workings of Science in the LandGeorge Schuyler(1931) A scathing sat ...
convinced, rather, that it has everything to do with the overhaul of American society. He also is con- vinced that with his proc ...
and ARTHURHUFF FAUSET, who was the step- brother of CRISISeditor JESSIEFAUSETand the editor of the first issue. The magazine als ...
enslaved man. His love interest, Juba, is a “tempes- tuous brown wench” (29) who listens often to Gabriel’s ruminations about fr ...
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