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The Harlem Renaissance : Home

This guide provides links to resources related to the Harlem Renaissance as well as serves as a compliment to the Library's annual Harlem Halloween Contest.

Harlem Renaissance Icons

photo of Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

By Carl Van Vechten; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 07:07, 5 August 2010 (UTC) - Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Onlince Collection, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11094717

W.E.B. DuBois

W.E.B. Du Bois

By James E. Purdy - National Portrait Gallery, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=115198978

Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker

By Studio Harcourt - RMN, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=76195495

Marcus Garvey

By from George Grantham Bain Collection - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID cph.3a03567.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1627862

Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith

By Carl Van Vechten, restored by Adam Cuerden - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID ppmsca.09571.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49459918

Augusta Savage

Augusta Savage

By US Gov. - https://catalog.archives.gov/id/559182, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68575056

James Van Der Zee

James Van Der Zee

By Rochester Institute of Technology - News & Events 1981 at the RIT Digital Archive, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=115649391

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

By Unknown author - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID cph.3b10040.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64385

Countee Cullen

Countee Cullen

By R. W. Bullock - In spite of handicaps : brief biographical sketches with discussion outlines of outstanding Negroes now living who are achieving distinction in various lines of endeavor., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=127273189

Gladys Bentley

Gladys Bentley

By Anonymous. Unattributed. - This file has been extracted from another file, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=108820760

Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday

By William P. Gottlieb - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID gottlieb.04281.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=116216387

Fashion & Style

2024 Harlem Halloween Afternoon Soiree

Our mannequins getting prepped for display

Our mannequins getting prepped for display

Pictured L-R are Karen Vaught, Lorrene Miller and Brenda Snider

Our mannequin getting prepped for display

Our mannequins and Harlem Renaissance display

Pictured L-R are Tiffany Davis and Brenda Snider

Pictured L- R are Karen Vaught, Reachell Chambers, Tiffany Davis and Brenda Snider

Door Prize Winner Nevaeh Washington

Pictured L- R are Brenda Snider, Navaeh Washington and Lorrene Miller

Congratulations and thank you for your participation!!!

Door Prize Winner Nevaeh Washington

Door Prize Winner Nevaeh Washington

Pictured L-R are Brenda Snider, Ugochi Nwachuku, Karen Vaught and Lorrene Miller

Our mannequins after hours

Zelda Wynn Valdes

Suggested Reading

Voices from the Harlem Renaissance book cover art
Harlem Renaissance book cover art
Harlem Reader cover art
Harlem book cover art
Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance book cover art
Rhythm Man cover art
White Lies book cover art
The New Negro book cover art
Paul Robeson book cover art
Langston Hughes book cover art
Images of Black Modernism book cover art