Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance (1920s) was a US arts movement, based in Harlem, and centered around jazz. Major figures included:

Writers

• Ralph Ellison, novelist
• Zora Neale Hurston, novelist, anthropologist
• Nella Larsen, novelist
• Langston Hughes, poet
• Jessie Fausset[?], novelist
• Countee Cullen[?], poet
• Claude McKay[?], poet
• James Weldon Johnson, poet

Painters

• John T. Biggers[?]
• Edward Burra[?]
• Aaron Douglas[?]
• William H. Johnson[?]
• Lois Mailou Jones[?]
• Jacob Lawrence
• Hale Woodruff[?]