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The Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, was a cultural, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, and spanning the 1920s.This list includes intellectuals and activists, writers, artists, and performers who were closely associated with the movement.
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. [1]
Oscar Hammerstein II – writer and theatrical producer [1] W. C. Handy – composer and bandleader; lived on Strivers' Row in Harlem towards the end of his life [34] Benny Harris – musician, trumpet [63] Lorenz Hart – lyricist [1] Johnny Hartman – vocalist; born in Louisiana, grew up in Chicago, moved to Harlem's Sugar Hill in 1950s
Eulalie Spence (June 11, 1894 [1] – March 7, 1981) was a writer, teacher, director, actress and playwright from the British West Indies.She was an influential member of the Harlem Renaissance, writing fourteen plays, at least five of which were published. [1]
Winner of the 1953 National Book Award, “Invisible Man” follows an unnamed narrator as he grows up and takes part in the Harlem Renaissance.
Marita Bonner (June 16, 1899 – December 7, 1971), also known as Marieta Bonner, was an American writer, essayist, and playwright who is commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Other names she went by were Marita Occomy, Marita Odette Bonner, Marita Odette Bonner Occomy, Marita Bonner Occomy, and Joseph Maree Andrew.
May Miller (January 26, 1899 – February 8, 1995) [1] was an American poet, playwright and educator.Miller, who was African-American, became known as the most widely published female playwright of the Harlem Renaissance and had seven volumes of poetry published during her career as a writer.
Jean Toomer (born Nathan Pinchback Toomer; December 26, 1894 – March 30, 1967) was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the association, and with modernism.