Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance

following a series of policy disagreements with the NAACP that included a difference of opinion about how best to protect Africa ...

Nichols, Charles H., ed. Arna Bontemps–Langston Hughes Letters, 1925–1967.New York: Paragon House, 1990. Rampersad, Arnold. The ...

College (which has since become Dillard Univer- sity). Dunbar-Nelson’s literary career began in the 1890s when she published col ...

ary 1943 letter to Hamilton Holt, the president of Rollins College, she declared, “Truly I am glad that you liked Dust Tracks.I ...

Earth Em Jo Basshe(1927) A play by EMJOBASSHEthat MESSENGERtheater critic THEOPHILUSLEWISblasted as a “Broadway forgery of Negro ...

community. Located in Florida, this all-black town was where John Hurston was elected mayor. It was there that Zora Hurston’s mo ...

Bibliography Boyd, Valerie. Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston.New York: Scribner, 2003. Hemenway, Robert. Zora ...

works depicted lives “full of strong colors, of pas- sions, deep and fierce, of struggle, disillusion—the whole gamut of life fr ...

Edmonds, Sheppard Randolph(1900–1983) Born in Lawrenceville, Virginia, this college profes- sor and playwright graduated from Ob ...

disrespected by a system that should, in principle, support their efforts to become successful providers. The play concludes wit ...

Lawrence, A. H. Duke Ellington and His World: A Biogra- phy.New York: Routledge, 2001. Nicholson, Stuart. Reminiscing in Tempo: ...

Library, an intellectual and creative hub of the Harlem Renaissance community. Ellison’s writing career began just as the Harlem ...

when they learn from an African-American woman, a delicate individual described as a “little fluttery thin thing, all heart and ...

“Emmy” Jessie Fauset(1912–1913) A gripping romance by JESSIEFAUSETand the first of her fictional works to appear in THECRISIS. “ ...

HARLEM. Paul Robeson, who in the 1920s joined the PROVINCETOWNPLAYERS, a theater group that was closely affiliated with O’Neill, ...

ture. The patriarch, James Williams, is demoralized by the racism that prevents him from finding work. Driven to drink, he ultim ...

stupidities and abnormalities of mankind.” The statement offers a final emphasis on awareness but is tempered by the references ...

such as NEWYORKCITY, Chicago, and WASHING- TON, D.C. The Ethiopian Art Players included PAUL ROBESON, and it is the organization ...

Renaissance, 1910–1927.New York: Palgrave Mac- millan, 2002. Europe, James Reese (Big Jim Europe) (1881–1919) A dynamic figure o ...

tailed set of descriptions that emphatically situate the reader and audience in the scene. The play is set in a studio apartment ...