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Role: Poet, activist, novelist, playwright.
Accomplishments: Leading the Harlem Renaissance and inventing Jazz Poetry.
Famous Work: "I, too"
Quote or lyric connected to themes of Harlem Renaissance: We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
Post author: Aaron

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Role: Singer, Activist
Accomplishments: Innovated Stride Style, had songs inducted into Grammy Hall of Fame
Famous Work: Ain't Misbehavin
Quote:If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.

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Countee CullenMay (30, 1903Died	January 9, 1946 (aged 42)

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Countee CullenMay (30, 1903Died	January 9, 1946 (aged 42)

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Rule: American writer and play writer
Accomplishment: Due to Cullen's mixed identity, he developed an aesthetic that embraced both black and white cultures.[5] He was a firm believer that poetry surpassed race and that it could be used to bring the races closer together.[4] Although race was a recurring theme in his works, Cullen wanted to be known as a poet not strictly defined by race.
Genre: poetic
Famous work: Color, Black Christ
Quote: “There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
― Countee Cullen
Post author: Yushan Liang

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Role: writer, novelist
Accomplishments: dealt with the ideas of being 'mixed-race' and the struggles of appearing to be the only African-American child in her family because she had a Danish mother and a light-skinned father. There was controversy over possible plagarization after which she disappeared from the public eye.
Famous Work: Quicksand
Quote:  "That's what everybody wants, just a little more money, even the people who have it."
Author: Lizzie

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Role: Historian, archivist, LGBT pioneer
Accomplishments: Gumby began by creating scrapbooks populated by images and works of creative members of the Harlem community. He had soon collected so many scrapbooks, rare books, and manuscripts that he could no longer store everything in his studio apartment. Gumby moved to larger space which eventually became known as Gumby's Bookstore. This space served as a salon and gathering place for luminaries of the Harlem scene (e.g. Claude McCkay, Dorothy West, and Paul Robeson).
Famous work: The L. S. Alexander Gumby Collection of Negroiana and Gumby, L. S. Alexander (1952) "The adventure of my scrapbooks," Columbia Library Columns, Volume 22 #1.
Post author: Aaron

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Role Baseball Player
Accomplishments Baseball Hall of Fame, oldest major league rookie
Works Was a great pitcher in the negro leagues
Quote "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching."
Post Author Zach

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Role: Writer and poet
Accomplishments: Key figure in literary movement in Harlem Renaissance
Famous work: If we must die
Quote:

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

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McCall

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Role: American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer
Accomplishments: He rose to fame as the leader of Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers in the 1920s.
Famous Works: "Jelly Roll Blues", "King Porter Stomp", "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say"
Quote: "I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago Style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style."
Post Author: Alec

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Role: Tap dancer, actor
Accomplishments:  The best known and most highly paid African-American entertainer in the first half of the twentieth century
Famous Works: Had dancing roles with Shirley Temple in films, "Stair Dance"
Quote: "What success I achieved in the theater is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands”
Post Author: Sam

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Role: Professional boxer
Accomplishments: World Heavyweight champion from 1937 to 1949.
Famous Works: Defeated Max Schmeling, a German, in 1938 to become national hero.
Quote or lyric connected to themes of the HR: " You need a lot of different types of people to make the world better.
Post Author: Chris

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Role: Singer, entertainer
Accomplishments: Gee was of the first African American acts to tour the Lowe circuit. Soloist in the Southern Syncopated Orchestra.
Famous Work: Performances in "Shuffle Along" and "Chocolate Dandies."
Quote or lyric connected to themes of HR: No quotes found.
Post Author: Cat Patterson

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Role: jazz singer
Accomplishments: popular and versatile nightclub and radio singer; featured vocalist with the Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington orchestras
Famous Work: "I can't give you anything but love, Baby"; Blackbirds of 1928
Quote or lyric connected to themes of Harlem Renaissance: " I can't give you anything but love, baby
That's the only thing I've plenty of, baby
Dream a while. Scheme a while. We're sure to find
Happiness."
Post Author: Meyer

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Role: Author/writer
Accomplishments: Published a book of African-American folklore and several books detailing racial struggles African-Americans often experienced
Famous Works: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mules and Men
Quote or lyric connected to themes of Harlem Renaissance:  “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
Post author: Naomi Scheer

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Earl "Snakehips" Tucker (Age 24 in 1930)

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Earl "Snakehips" Tucker (Age 24 in 1930)

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Role: legendary dancer and entertainer
Accomplishments: one of the best dancers, known for moving his hips
Famous Work: Snakehip dance moves
Quote:  Spoke with his hips
Post author: Amitoz Singh

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Role: Jazz musician, band leader, composer
Accomplishments: cornet player who was a vital role in the prehistory of jazz by ensuring its survival
Famous Works: "Snag It" and "Dippermouth Blues"
Quote: I wanted to be an up-to-date king. But I didn't have much time.
Post Author: Mason

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Role: Athlete (Track and Field)
Accomplishments: Set 3 world records and tied a 4th in a span of 45 minutes
Famous work: Winning 4 medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, amidst the belief of Hitler and Nazis that the Aryan race was supreme
Quote or lyric connected to themes of the HR: "Although I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either."
Post author: Chad

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Georgia Douglas Johnson (Age 50 in 1930)

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Georgia Douglas Johnson (Age 50 in 1930)

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Role: Poet, playwright, journalist, teacher
Accomplishments: On Saturday nights she hosted open houses attended by such Harlem Renaissance writers as Louis Alexander, Gwendolyn Bennett, Countee Cullen, Clarissa Scott Delaney, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Angelina Weld Grimke, and Langston Hughes. this became known as the S Street Salon
Famous work: The Heart of a Woman
Quote:  “Your world is as big as you make it.
I know, for I used to abide
In the narrowest nest in a corner,
My wings pressing close to my side.”
Post author: Lizzie

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Born October 10, 1917
Died February 17, 1982 (aged 64) Englewood, New Jersey, U.S.
Rule: African-American Jazz player and composer
Accomplishment: Monk is one of five jazz musicians to have been featured on Time magazine. And he had written over 70 jazz music in his life.
Famous work(s): 'Round Midnight", "Blue Monk", "Straight, No Chaser", "Ruby, My Dear", "In Walked Bud", and "Well, You Needn't"
Quote: “Don't play everything (or every time); let some things go by… What you don't play can be more important than what you do.”
― Thelonious Monk
Post author: Yushan Liang

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Role: Playwright, author, activist
Accomplishments: first black man to write about homosexuality openly.
Famous Works " Notes of a Native Son"
Quotes:Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Post author: Amitoz Singh

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Role: Jazz composer and pianist.
Accomplishments: Pioneering jazz musician who some say "invented jazz."
Famous work: "Original Jelly Roll Blues
Quote or lyric connected to the themes of the Harlem Renaissance: "Get up from that Piano. You're hurtin' its feelings."
Post author: Aaron

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Role: An African-American, multi-talented artist who wrote poetry, painted, and sculpted but was most noted for her sculpture.
Accomplishments: Her work was displayed in a traveling exhibit at the Crocker Art Museum in 1988, along with artists such as Aaron Douglas, Palmer C. Hayden, and James Van Der Zee.
The Danforth Museum has a large collection of Fuller's sculptures.
Famous Work: "Man carrying a dead comrade", "The Wretched"
Quote: "Art must be the quintessence of meaning. Creative art means that you create yourself."
Post Author: Alec

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Role: jazz pianist
Accomplishments: first black male recipient of a Grammy Award, many musicians came to prominence after working in his jazz orchestra, "April in Paris" became a trademark for his band
Famous Work: "April in Paris
Quote: "Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues."
Post: Skylar

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Role: Painter, Illustrator, educator
Accomplishments: Painted portraits of Civil Rights activists and members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Honored a gold medal from the Harmon Foundation for a portrait. Created illustrations for the NAACP magazine, The Crisis.
Famous Work:"The Co-Ed"
Quote or lyric connected to themes of HR: “I thought again and again...how little of the beauty of really great pictures is revealed in the reproductions which we see and how freely and with what ease the great masters paint.”
Post Author: Cat Patterson

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Role: Jazz singer
Accomplishments: Three sold-out shows at Carnegie Hall, 4 grammy awards, inducted in Grammy Hall of Fame, one of the first African American vocalists to work with a white orchestra
Famous Work: "Strange Fruit"
Quote: "You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling"
Post Author: Elena

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Role: activist, scholar
Accomplishments: founded NAACP, first to earn a PhD from Harvard
Famous Work:  The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1899) - first  case study of an African American community
Quote:   "Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense."
Author: Lizzie

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Role: Jazz musician, soloist, singer, film star, and comedian
Accomplishments: Led the development of jazz into a fine art with his innovate simplistic style
Famous Works: "Star Dust" and "What a Wonderful World"
Quote: If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
Post Author:  Mason

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Role: Jazz musician (singer, trumpet player, songwriter)
Accomplishments: Helped establish an entirely new sound in jazz music called bebop, pioneered the fusion of Afro-Cuban rhythms
Famous Work(s):  "Oop Bob Sh' Bam," "Groovin' High," "Salt Peanuts" and "A Night in Tunisia"
Quote or lyric connected to themes of Harlem Renaissance: " I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is."
Post author: Chad

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Role: Dancer, Singer, Activist
Accomplishments: being the first person of color to become a worldwide entertainer and to star in a major motion picture; using her platform to further the Civil Rights Movement
Famous Work: a dance that took place during a show called La Folie du Jour
Quote or lyric connected to themes of Harlem Renaissance:  "All my life, I have maintained that the people of the world can learn to live together in peace if they are not brought up in prejudice."
Post Author: Meyer

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Role: Author, anthropologist, folklorist, playwright
Accomplishments: One of the first authors to bring awareness to African American culture in her writing during the Harlem Renaissance
Famous Works: "Mules and Men" and "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
Quote: “Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
Post Author: Sam

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Role: Jazz singer, performer.
Accomplishments:  Received a Grammy lifetime achievement award (posthumous), received a National Medal of Art
Famous Work: "Minnie the Moocher"
Quote or lyric connected to themes of Harlem Renaissance: " You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job."
Post Author: Chris

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Role: Sculptor and art teacher
Accomplishments: Fought for inclusion of African-American artists, particularly women, and taught young African-American artists.
Famous Work: Gamin and W.E.B. Du Bois
Quote or lyric connected to the theme of the Harlem Renaissance:  "I have created nothing really beautiful, really lasting, but if I can inspire one of these youngsters to develop the talent I know they possess, then my monument will be in their work."
Author: Naomi Scheer

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Role entrepreneur, philanthropist, and social activist
Accomplishments

the First Black American Woman to Be a Self-Made Millionaire

Famous Works

invented a line of African-American hair care products, established Madame C.J. Walker Laboratories to manufacture cosmetics, opened a factory and a beauty school
Quote “I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South.  From there I got promoted to the washtub.  From there I was promoted to the cook kitchen.  And from there I promoted myself into the business of manufacturing hair goods and preparations.  I have built my own factory on my own ground.”
Post Author Zach

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Role: Play write, activist and librarian
Accomplishments:
Helped create the Harlem Renaissance by providing a meeting place.
Famous Works:
"Underground" and "Climbing Jacob's ladder".
Quote:
"Somewhere along the line a few of us [probably Dorothy Peterson, Harold Jackman and one or two others] sat in the basement of the 135th Street library one night, and we began to talk about wanting to write and produce our own dramas" (this created their meetings which created the Harlem Renaissance)
Post author:
McCall

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Role: Jazz singer
Accomplishments: First lady of song, scat singing style
Famous work: "Dream a little dream"
Quote or lyric connected to themes of the HR: "Music is the universal language... It brings people closer together."
Post author: Aaron

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Role: Poet, activist, novelist, playwright.
Accomplishments: Leading the Harlem Renaissance and inventing Jazz Poetry.
Famous Work: "I, too"
Quote or lyric connected to themes of Harlem Renaissance: We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
Post author: Aaron