For resources from the Bryn Mawr Library, click on Bibliography.
   
Harlem, 1900-1940: an African-American Community - A production of the New York Public Library's Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, this exhibition includes a Timeline of events and sections on Activism (Marcus Garvey, the NAACP, the Silent Protest), Arts (bios and photos of Countee Cullen, Duke Ellington, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay and others), and Community (the Harlem Hospital and the Lafayette Theatre).  Includes resources for teachers and related links.

Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro -  The University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center has provided a hypertext edition of the March 1925 issue of Survey Graphic, a special issue devoted to the cultural movement taking place in Harlem.  Includes articles by Alain Locke, James W. Johnson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Countee Cullen.  

The Harlem Renaissance - Britannica.com entry with introductions to writers and artists of the movement. More detailed information is on the Britannica Online entry.  Password required.

Online Forum: Harlem Renaissance - This is an online PBS forum, with several university professors discussing and answering questions about the Harlem Renaissance.  Example: why did Parisians especially accept blacks in the 1920s; what is the connection between the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement that came later, what explains the optimistic tone of the period, why did it end?

Rhapsodies in Black - Artistic themes of the Period--The New Negro, Modernism and Modernity, A Blues Aesthetic, Imagining Africa, Haiti, and Black Nationhood are evaluated.  See examples of the remarkable artists of this period.  

December, 2009