The Harlem Renaissance was a period in the 1920s and 1930s when African American art, music, and literature flourished. Some of the prominent writers of the time included Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jessie Redmon Fauset, James Weldon Johnson, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, and Gwendolyn Bennett. Notable artists from the Harlem Renaissance were James Van Der Zee, Sargent Claude Johnson, Archibald J. Motley, Malvin Gray Johnson, and Augusta Savage. Famous musicians who rose during this era were Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker, Edward Kennedy Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, and