During the early years of the 20th century, in a Manhattan neighborhood called Harlem, America experienced one of its greatest artistic and intellectual awakenings. Escaping the violent and ...

The roots of the Harlem Renaissance lay partly in a demographic shift. By the early twentieth century, a large number of Southern blacks had left their birth places for Northern cities ...

Do you know the name Gladys Bentley? In the early twentieth century, Harlem was home to many emerging Black artists, from authors like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston to jazz musicians like ...

Until real estate agent Philip Payton opened Harlem to black residents ... their availability for any other class” of tenants.¹ Until the early twentieth century, black people lived within integrated ...

This course explores the historical, cultural and literary roots of the early twentieth-century Harlem Renaissance. Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright and ...