# data[].attributes.body
Role: American Boxer
Accomplishments: Rose through the ranks of amateur and professional boxing to become the World Heavyweight Champion from 1937 to 1949.
Famous Work: Best known for his legendary matchup against German boxer Max Scheming. Became a hero by knocking out Scheming in the first round. This is thought of as an American victory over Nazism.

# data[].attributes.body
Role: Poet, playwright
Accomplishments: One of the first women of color to have her play performed publicly
Famous work: Rachel, a play about the impact of lynching in the US; used by the NAACP in response to the film The Birth of a Nation
Quote connected to themes of HR:

“What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.”

# data[].attributes.body
Role: Photographer
Accomplishments: Guarantee Photo Studio
Famous Work: Evening Attire 1922
Quote connected to themes of HR: "The biggest day for studio photos was Sunday, especially Easter Sunday. The high class, the middle class, the poorer class all looked good on Sundays."

# data[].attributes.body
Role: Artist, Sculptor
Accomplishments: One of America's first prominent women sculptors, attended Pennsylvania Museum and School for Industrial, Art on full scholarship, became activist for women's suffrage
Famous Work: Ethiopia Awakening, Waterboy (sculptures)

# data[].attributes.body
Role: American Track Athlete
Accomplishments: Won four gold medals in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin
Famous work: Stunned the world by winning four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, the epicenter of the Nazi regime
Quote: "We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-disciple, and effort."

# data[].attributes.body
Role: Sculptor and Civil Rights activists
Accomplishments: First black artist admitted to the National Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, Sculpted key figures such as W.E.B. Dubois and Marcus Garvey, Led Civil Rights Movement against discriminatory actions for selection of study abroad programs and race, helped found the Harlem Artists Guild
Famous Work: The Harp, The Pugilist
Quotes or lyrics connected to the HR: "I have created nothing 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."

# data[].attributes.body
Role:  Trumpeter, Composer, Singer (Jazz) and Occasional Actor
Accomplishments: Revolutionized jazz
Famous Work: "Star Dust," "La Vie En Rose" and "What a Wonderful World."
Quote connected to theme of HR: "Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for"

# data[].attributes.body
Role: Jazz Pianist, Organist, Band Leader, and Composer
Accomplishments: Formed his own jazz orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, and led the group for over 50 years.
Famous work: One O'Clock Jump
Quote or lyric connected to themes of the HR: "If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune"

# data[].attributes.body
Role: Jazz Musician and Composer
Accomplishments: Made contributions to Jazz music through his improvisational style which included dissonances and angular melodic twist. Monk is one of five jazz musicians to have been featured on the cover of Time magazine. Additionally, Monk is famous for his unorthodox jazz performances and being the second most recorded jazz artist of all time despite only having 70 songs.
Famous Work: "'Round Midnight"
Quote connected to the Harlem Renaissance: “They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along & spoil it.”
“A genius is the one most like himself.”

# data[].attributes.body
Role: Hayden is an African American artist who was  known best for his seascapes and his lively depictions of everyday life in Harlem.
Accomplishment: He enlisted in the U.S. Army’s all-African American Company A, 24th Infantry Regiment, in 1911 and served in the Philippines in that company’s cartography unit. He served at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, in the African American detachment of the 10th Cavalry from 1914 to 1920. In 1926 he won the gold medal in visual arts (which came with $400) from the Harmon Foundation, which also recognized achievement among African Americans in the fields of education, industry, literature, music, race relations, and science. While in Paris he painted his well-known watercolour Nous quatre à Paris (c. 1930), which features the artist playing cards with Woodruff and writers Countee Cullen and Eric Warlord, each of whom is depicted in profile with exaggerated facial features, making reference to indigenous African Art. In 1933 Hayden’s still life Fétiche et fliers—a composition that incorporates a Fang reliquary sculpture and African textiles—won a prize in the Harmon Foundation’s “Exhibition of the Work of Negro Artists.” The references to tribal African material culture showed the influence of Locke as well as that of the Cubists. From 1944 to 1954 Hayden painted a series of 12 paintings depicting African American folk hero John Henry, a character he remembered from stories he had heard in his youth.
Most famous work: His best-known work, The Janitor Who Paints (c. 1937), shows an African American artist painting a mother and child in a cramped apartment that contains the tools necessary for both the artist’s work and that of the janitor.
Quote: "I paint what us Negroes, colored people, us Americans know. We're a brand new race, raised and manufactured in the United States. I do like to paint what they did."(Extraordinary People of The Harlem Renaissance, 225)

# data[].attributes.body
Role: Dancer, Singer, Performer
Accomplishments: Performed as a dancer and singer in many shows in Europe (especially Paris), and some in the United States, nicknamed "Black Venus" and "Black Pearl," member of Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s
Famous Work: La Folie du Jour, Zou-Zou, Princess Tam-Tam
Q uote: "Let us stop saying 'white Americans' and 'colored Americans,' let us try once and for all saying... Americans. Let human beings be equal on Earth as in Heaven."

# data[].attributes.body
Role: Painter
Accomplishments: The Smithsonian American Art Museum had exhibition of his work- expanded to Fort Worth and Montgomery, Alabama. The William H. Johnson Foundation for the Arts was awarded the William H. Johnson prize. Later in 2012, the U.S Postal Service created a stamp in Johnson's honor, recognizing him as one of the nation's foremost African-American artists and a major figure in 20th-century American art.
Famous work: Three Friends, Sowing (1940), Mount Calvary.
Quote connected to theme of HR: “My aim is to express in a natural way what I feel, what is in me, both rhythmically and spiritually, all that which in time has been saved up in my family of primitiveness and tradition, and which is now concentrated in me.”

# data[].attributes.body
Role: Jazz singer
Accomplishments: Expressive voice, joined Count Basie's Orchestra in 1937, inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000, 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues
Famous Work: "God Bless the Child," "Strange Fruit"
Quote connected to Harlem Renaissance: "Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose"

# data[].attributes.body
Role: Artist, Painter, and Educator
Accomplishments:  Art is displayed in the Harmon Foundation exhibit to do portraits of prominent African Americans associated with the Harlem Renaissance as well as landscapes and still lifes. She had her paintings shown at institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. Many of the portraits that make up part of her artistic legacy are in the National Portrait Gallery's permanent collection.
Famous Work: "Anna Washington Derry" (1927)
Quote connected to themes of the HR:

# data[].attributes.body
Role: Painter
Accomplishments:  Depicting the Great Migration in his paintings
Famous Work: Migration Series; "And the migrants kept coming"
Quote connected to theme of HR: ""This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, & the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto."

# data[].attributes.headline
Florence Mills ( Died in 1927 at age 31)

# data[].attributes.subject
Florence Mills ( Died in 1927 at age 31)

# data[].attributes.body
Role:
Leading performer in Dance and music in the Jazz age.
Accomplishments:
-created the pathway for other African Americans in mainstream theater.
- popularized syncopated dance and song.
Famous work:
she appeared in Blackbirds(1926), singing " I'm a little blackbird looking for a bluebird" which became her trademark song.
Quote:
“My greatest ambition is to see the white people ignore the colored question”

# data[].attributes.body
Role: Pianist, Songwriter
Accomplishments: Innovator in the Jazz genre of music, one of the first people to play Jazz, founded the Jazz band "Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers", Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
Famous Work: "The Jelly Roll Blues"
Quote connected to the theme of HR:  "It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of jazz, and I, myself, happened to be creator in the year 1902, many years before the Dixieland Band organized."

# data[].attributes.body
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."

# data[].attributes.body
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 the HR: 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.