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W.E.B. Du Bois: Writer, Activist and Philosopher

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Hurston was a writer and anthropologist

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Claude McKay  poems talk about America with a view that mixed love and hate, pain and pleasure. He was able to see America for all of its qualities, good and bad because he had chosen America as his home.

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Charles S. Gilpin  was a part of the Canadian Jubilee singers and was one of the original members of the Pekin Stock Company in Chicago.

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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

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Established by W.E.B Du Bois, a major advocate for black rights during the Harlem Renaissance, and throughout history. It was established by the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People),

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The magazine tried to find balance between the NAACP and the utopian populism of the UNIA. A. Philip Randolph edited this magazine

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"Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship." A. Philip Randolph

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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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Marcus Garvey was a leading intellectual during the Harlem Renaissance. Garvey was self taught, and until he was 14 years old, attended school in Jamaica.

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Jones entered her works into exhibitions that did not recognize African American artist by having white friends deliver the paintings

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Lois Jones attended the School of Museum of Fine Art, Boston, during a time of strong discrimination against African Americans.

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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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0ne of Douglas's series that tracks the journey of African Americans from freedom in Africa to enslavement in the United States and from liberation after the Civil War to life in the modern city.

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Aaron Douglas (1898-1979) was the Harlem Renaissance artist whose work best exemplified the 'New Negro' philosophy.

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Poem by Langston Hughes that explores the idea of the fragile relationship between the black community and the rest of America.

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The Apollo grew to prominence during the Harlem Renaissance of the pre World-War II years.

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Palmer Hayden (American, 1890-1973), Nous Quatre a Paris (We Four in Paris), no date, In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.

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Music of the Jazz Age influenced Hughes

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Hale Woodruff, Caprice, 1962,

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Archibald J. Motley, Nightlife, 1943, oil on canvas, In the Art Institute of Chicago, IL.

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Florence Mills was known as the "Queen of Happiness" she was an American cabaret singer,dancer, comedian and actress.

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Chick Webb was and American jazz ad swing music drummer

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James Lescesne Wells (American, 1902-1992), Escape of the Spies from Canaan, about 1933,

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Jacob Lawrence was the first mainstream African American artist. Dreams

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Hale Woodruff (American, 1900-1980), Landscape, 1936,

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One of the most famous musicians of the Harlem Renaissance was Louis Armstrong.

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Ella Fitzgerald made her singing debut at the age of 17 at the Apollo theatre, on November  21, 1934.

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Bill"Bonjangles" Robinson became famous with his role in Blackbirds of 1928, and all- black musical on Boradway.

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Aaron Douglas, Sahdji,

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Race riots inspired McKay to write If We Must Die
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Female Laborer

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Aaron Douglas, Study for Aspects of Negro Life: The Negro in an African Setting, 1934,

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James Lescesne Wells, Negro Worker, about 1938

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Hurston challenged stereotypes about black women in her work

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Jacob Lawrence was the first mainstream African American artist

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Aaron Douglas, Aspects of Negro Life #62: Song of the Towers, 1934,

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Palmer Hayden, The Janitor Who Paints, about 1937, oil, In the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

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Richmond Barthé (American, 1901-1989), Portrait of Harold Jackman, 1929

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Laura Wheeler Waring (American, 1887-), Still Life, 1929

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Palmer Hayden, Jeunesse, no date,    He could have seen such dancing as this at the Savoy, which was Harlem's most famous jazz club.

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Archibald Motley Jr., After Fiesta, Remorse, Siesta, 1959-1960, oil on canvas.

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Aaron Douglas, Into Bondage, 1936

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Malvin Gray Johnson (American, 1896-1934), Brothers, 1934, oil, In the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

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James Van Der Zee (American, 1886-1983), Alpha Phi Alpha Basketball Team, 1926, photograph.

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Archibald J. Motley (1891-1981), Mending Socks, 1924, oil on canvas, Ackland Art Museum, U of No. Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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James Van Der Zee (American, 1886-1983), Evening Attire, 1922, In the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

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Aaron Douglas, Crucifixion

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Archibald J. Motley, Blues, 1929, oil on canvas.

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Aaron Douglas, Rebirth, 1927,