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The Apollo Theater was constructed on 125th Street in Harlem, New York. It was originally Hurtig and Seamon's New Burlesque Theatre, and African American admissions were not permitted. In January, 1934, African Americans began to perform, and the attention shifted from Burlesque, to the new celebration of Black culture in New York City.

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The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of African-American thought which was expressed through paintings, music, dance, theater and Literature

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Marcus Garvey was a leading intellectual during the Harlem Renaissance. Garvey became aware of the discrimination that his people, the African Americans, faced. Garvey became known as a rising “black Moses”, had gained roughly 2 million followers. In the Association’s Liberty Hall of Harlem, Garvey spoke about the “new negro”, and showed his pride for his race.

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We all have something to say as artists. We try to say it through our work, but all to often we end up saying it about our work, our words far more effective in saying what we want than our painting. Maybe that's because we don't do enough painting. Why stop at a single work when a whole series may be needed to convey our thoughts? This is the unspoken philosophy of one of the most beloved African-American painters--Jacob Lawrence.

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Nightclubs were an important way to show off African American talent during the Rnaissance. The Cotton Club, happened to be one of these hotspots. It was located between 142nd street, and Lenox avenue.

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A. Philip Randolph was born of April 15th, 1889.  He moved to Jacksonville, where he attended the Cookman Institute, with his brothers. After graduating, he worked different odd jobs, but dedicated much of his time to singing, acting and reading. He was convinced by W.E.B Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk to fight for social equality, for his people.

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Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891. Hurston was always interested in writing, and during the Harlem Renaissance, she befriended some very famous writers, such as Langston Hughes. By 1935, she had published a handful of short stories, articles, as well as a novel, Jonah’s Gourd Vine.

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The famous tap-dancer Bill"Bonjangles" Robinson became famous with his role in Blackbirds of 1928, and all- black musical on Boradway. He was known for his elegant style and grace with white and black audiences Blacks and whites developed different opinions of him. To whites he was nicknamed "bonjangles" (happy go luck) but to blacks he was referred to as a "squabbler".

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This picture was a representation of how life was during the Harlem Renaissance. Harlem nightlife to be exact.

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This ballroom, which opened in March, 1926,  was an exciting place to be during the night time in Harlem. it offered 12 consecutive hours of dancing every single day. Entrance fees were 50 cents, or 75 on the weekends. Dances such as the "Lindy Hop" or the "Shim Sham" were danced, and the music of great jazz artists was played.

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Aaron Douglas (1898-1979) was the Harlem Renaissance artist whose work best exemplified the 'New Negro' philosophy. He painted murals for public buildings and produced illustrations and cover designs for many black publications including The Crisis and Opportunity.

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Lawrence's work (1940–41), a sequence of 60 paintings, depicts the mass movement of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North between World War I and World War II—a development that had received little previous public attention.

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Florence Winfrey was known as the "Queen of Happiness" she was an American cabaret singer,dancer, comedian and actress. She was featured in Vogue and Vanity Fair and she was photographed by famous photographers Bassano and Edward Steichen.

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Democracy: By Langston Hughes
Democracy will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.

I have as much right
As the other fellow has
To stand
On my two feet
And own the land.

I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I'm dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

Freedom
Is a strong seed
Planted
In a great need.

I live here, too.
I want freedom
Just as you.

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"Mine is a quiet explorations quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint." -Lois Mailou Jones

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“Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish!”
- Wallace Thurman

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Paul Robeson was an American concert singer, recording artist, athlete and actor who became noted for his political radicalism and activism in the civil rights movement. Robeson was the first major concert star to popularize the performance of negro spirituals , he was also the first black actor of the 20th century to portray Shakespeare's Othello in a production that consist of an all white cast.

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Centered in the Harlem district of New York City, the New Negro Movement (as it was called at the time) had a major influence across the Unites States and even the world.

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Langston Hughes is known for his insightful, colorful, realistic portrayals of black life in America. He wrote poetry, short stories, novels, and plays, and is known for his involvement with the world of jazz and the influence it had on his writing. His life and work were enormously important in shaping the artistic contributions of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s.

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Bessie Smith was a famous jazz and blues singer during the Harlem Renaissance. Smith recorded with many of the great Jazz musicians of the 1920s, including Louis Armstrong. Smith was popular with both blacks and whites

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W.E.B. Du Bois, an African-American sociologist born just a few years after the end of the Civil War. Du Bois' career was mainly focused on creating an equal and just society for all, and he became a notable writer, activist, and philosopher. Du Bois' work created a bridge of assisting in the struggle for a more racially equal society and the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in the 1960s. Today, he is widely recognized as a significant figure for his pursuit of social justice and for his literary imagination.

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Zora Neale Hurston was an anthropologist and writer during the Harlem Renaissance. Zora Neale Hurston was born and raised in the southern part of the United States. She was born in Alabama but moved to Florida when she was very young. She loved literature, and her quest to understand people, as well as the way cultures develop, led her to New York City, where she studied anthropology at Barnard College, the sister school to Columbia University.

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One of the most famous musicians of the Harlem Renaissance was Louis Armstrong. Having come from a poor family in New Orleans, Armstrong began to perform with bands in small clubs and play at funerals and parades around town in New Orleans. Louis Armstrong was invited in 1922 to move to Chicago, to play the second cornet in a Creole Jazz Band. However, just two years later, Armstrong moved to New York City and began playing his music with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra at the Roseland Ballroom.

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William Henry Webb, know as Chick Webb was and American jazz ad swing music drummer. Born in Baltimore, he suffered from tuberculosis of the spine. He worked as a newspaper boy to save enough money to buy drums and he first played professionally at age 11.He became one of the best-regarded band leader and drummers of the new “Swing” style.

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Claude McKay was one of the first African-American poets of the Harlem Renaissance. As such, he influenced later poets, including Langston Hughes. He paved the way for black poets to discuss the conditions and racism that they faced in their poems.

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Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands.

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Jacob Lawrence was the first mainstream African American artist. His success began at the age of 24, and lasted until he died, in 2000. Lawrence is best known for his "Migration" series or paintings, where he shows the migration of blacks from Africa, to the United States.

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Josephine baker was a dancer, singer actress and comedian. She was the first African American performer to break free of racial offense. She is known to audiences in both Europe and the United States, she is known as “Black Venus”, “Black Pearl” and Creole Goddess because of her audiences and beauty.

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Cotton Culb New York Revue Magazine cover.  Purple background, with orange and red dancers, a dark purple man playing a saxophone. The Duke Ellington Orchestra was the "house" orchestra for a number of years at the Cotton Club. The revues featured glamorous dancing girls, acclaimed tap dancers, vaudeville performers, and comics. All the white world came to Harlem to see the show.

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Du Bois became increasing active in organizations that went up against the status quo of society and that pushed for equality of all men. In 1909, he helped to begin the organization of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, commonly known as NAACP. The Souls Of Black Folk was one of Du Bois' most prolific works that both anticipated and inspired much of the black consciousness and activism of the 1960s. Today, he is considered one of the most recognized of sociologists in our history.

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Billie Holiday ( Lady Day) rose as a social phenomenon. At the age of 18 Billie was spotted by John Hammond and received her first record as part of a studio group led by Benny Goodman.  She was one of the first black women to work with a white orchestra. A musical legend Billie Holiday died at the age of 44.