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The Harlem Renaissance was an African American artistic and intellectual movement that flourished throughout the 1920's

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Aaron Douglas was an American painter, illustrator and visual arts educator. He was a major figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

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Jacob Lawrence was an African-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life. As well as a painter, storyteller, and interpreter, he was an educator.

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Augusta Savage, born Augusta Christine Fells, was an African-American sculptor associated with the Harlem Renaissance.

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Lois Mailou Jones was an influential artist and teacher during her seven-decade career. Jones was one of the most notable figures to attain notoriety for her art while living as a black expatriate in Paris during the 1930s and 1940s.

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William Henry Johnson was an African-American painter. Born in Florence, South Carolina, he became a student at the National Academy of Design in New York City, working with Charles Webster Hawthorne.

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Harlem's Cotton Club boasted the talents of Duke Ellington. Singers such as Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday popularized blues and jazz vocals. Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong drew huge audiences as white Americans as well as African Americans caught jazz fever.

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The Roaring Twenties was also called the Jazz Age, because the lively, loose
beat of jazz captured the carefree spirit of the times. Jazz was developed by
African-American musicians in New Orleans.

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New Orleans was the home of Louis Armstrong, who became one of the world’s great jazz musicians. As
a child, Armstrong had a job collecting junk in a horse-drawn wagon.
While in the wagon, he often played a small tin horn.

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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years

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by Langston Hughes

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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.
Gillespie was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuoso style of Roy Eldridge but adding layers of harmonic complexity previously unheard in jazz.

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Ethel Waters was an American singer and actress. Waters frequently performed jazz, big band, and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, but she began her career in the 1920s singing blues.

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Florence Mills, billed as the "Queen of Happiness", was an African-American cabaret singer, dancer, and comedian known for her effervescent stage presence, delicate voice, and winsome, wide-eyed beauty.

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Also known as America's "Swing Era". The most popular dances of this decade were The Shuffle Along, Charleston, Lindy Hop, American Tango. Beats included the blues, jazz, Tap, Swing, etc.

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Emerging in 1921, led to the popularization of Jazz Dance which was a combination of European and African body movements with lots of tap dancing.

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Based on the African American musical style and beat. Became incredibly popular after being featured in the broadway show "Runnin' Wild" in 1923

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Originated in Harlem, NY. Combined moves from tap and the Charleston. Named for the pilot Charles Lindburgh's first solo flight. First dance to include swinging your partner up in the air.

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Josephine Baker was an entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in her adopted France.

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They were essentially the extreme version of the general mood in the 20s They were young, flamboyant, and relief from post-war tension.

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In 1923, became the first African American author to has his theatrical work on broadway.

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In 1945, Paul Robeson was the first African American actor to have a lead role on Broadway.

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Were formed during the Harlem Renaissance and were usually connected public service agendas. Most of the plays in these theaters dealt with conflicts, such as the North and the South.

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One of the theaters that thrived during the renaissance was the Lincoln theater. It was located in Harlem, NY and was open from 1902-1932. It was well known for African American plays and music performances.

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This was one of the first theaters in the United States that featured African American artists and preformers and was also open to African Americans and other minority audiences.

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Was a significant figure in the history of black dramatic literature. She wrote a play in 1925 called "Color Struck".

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Wallace Henry Thurman was an American novelist active during the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote essays, worked as an editor, and was a publisher of short-lived newspapers and literary journals.

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Literature during the Harlem Renaissance 

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Literature during the Harlem Renaissance 

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The Harlem Renaissance was a transformable period in time when poetry changed a nation of African-Americans to an incredible level.

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Langston Hughes was one of the leading black writers in that time period, and wrote many different types of literature. He wrote, and created a new literary art form called jazz poetry.

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James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. He was founder of the newspaper, "The Daily American".