Aaron Douglas
“Official Artist” of the Harlem Renaissance
Aaron Douglas
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The Making of New Communities
of Artists, Intellectuals, & Activists
Jessie Fauset,
“Midwife of Harlem Renaissance”
Cab Calloway
Bandleader &
Singer
Jitterbug
Dancing
AAl Jolsen in Derogatory Blackface
Laura Wheeler Waring: Artist
W.E.B.
Dubois
A leading intellectual,
activist, and
spokesperson for
African-Americans for
more than half of the
century. A “father” of
contemporary
Pan-Africansim.
The official
magazine
of the NAACP,
and during the
Harlem
Renaissance,
a major
promoter of
artists & writers.
Official
magazine
of the
National Urban League
and during the
Harlem Renaissance,
a major promoter
of artists & writers.
James Weldon Johnson:
A True Renaissance Man
MOBILIZATION
Silent Protest March
1917
Hellfighters Return
1919
Claude McKay
Writer, Poet
Oscar Micheaux
America’s First
BlackFilmmaker
Marcus
Garvey
Pan-Africanist
Popular
Leader
Activist
“Back to Africa Movement”
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Harlem Renaissance Week 1

Harlem Renaissance Week 1

Editor's Notes

  • #8 From left to right, attendees included Ethel Ray (Nance), Langston Hughes, Helen Lanning, Pearl Fisher, Regina Anderson (Andrews), Rudolf Fisher, Luella Tucker, Clarissa Scott (Delany), Esther Popel, Hubert Delany, Jessie Fauset, Marie Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier.
  • #9 Langston Hughes, Charles S. Johnson, E. Franklin Frazier, Rudolph Fisher and Hubert Delany (brother of the Delany Sisters) overlooking St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem in the 1920s.
  • #10 Hilda Simms, Langston Hughes (bottom right) and actor Canada Lee (center in white shirt) at a party with other artists around 1944. Photo by George Karger/Pix Inc./Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.
  • #11 With young Zora & Langston
  • #12 Young Langston Hughes in waiter’s outfit. Photo taken in Paris or DC possibly.
  • #15 Alaine Locke
  • #19 Black performers such as Master Juba, Bert Williams, and George Walker HAD to black themselves up to have audiences; they were black men imitating white men imitating black men.
  • #23 Painting by Laura Wheeler Waring
  • #24 NAACP Crisis Magazine
  • #36 Photo by Tyler Shields. “Historical Fiction” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUqlkx7SiCw
  • #39 1920’s NAACP Advertisement