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The Harlem Renaissance
Veronica Chambers
Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Sept. 1, 1997)Recounts the vibrant personalities and remarkable cultural movements that flourished in America's leading Black community during the 1920s and 1930s
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The Harlem Renaissance
Stuart A. Kallen
language (Lucent Books Inc, May 29, 2009)This book provides an overview of the Harlem Renaissance, America's first African-American literary and artistic movement.
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The Renaissance
Mary Quigley
Paperback (Heinemann, March 6, 2003)Presents an overview of the history of European society during the time known as the Renaissance, from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century.
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The Harlem Renaissance
Stuart A. Kallen
Library Binding (Abdo Group, June 1, 2001)Discusses African American history in the early twentieth century, as Harlem became a center of African American art and culture, and offers brief biographies of notable figures.
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The Harlem Renaissance
Veronica Chambers, Josh Wilker
Paperback (Chelsea House Pub, Sept. 1, 1997)Recounts the vibrant personalities and remarkable cultural movements that flourished in America's leading Black community during the 1920s and 1930s
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The Harlem Renaissance
A.R. Schaefer
Paperback (Heinemann, July 18, 2003)Describes the time period known as the Harlem Renaissance, during which African American artists, poets, writers, thinkers, and musicians flourished in Harlem, New York.
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The Renaissance
Walter Pater
eBook (Start Publishing LLC, Jan. 24, 2013)Pater's graceful essays discuss the achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and other artists. Included is his celebrated discussion of the Mona Lisa in a study of Da Vinci. This book concludes with an uncompromising advocacy of hedonism, urging readers to experience life as fully as possible. His cry of "art for art's sake" became the manifesto of the Aesthetic Movement, and his assessments of Renaissance art have influenced generations of readers. Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the "holy writ of beauty."
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Harlem Renaissance, The
Jim Haskins
Library Binding (Millbrook Press, March 1, 1996)Chronicles the early twentieth-century artistic and intellectual revolution in black America.
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Black Stars of the Harlem Renaissance
Jim Haskins, Eleanora E. Tate, Clinton Cox, Brenda Wilkinson
Paperback (Wiley, Sept. 13, 2002)AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY COMES TO LIFE Discover why young people all over the country are reading the Black Stars biographies of African American heroes. Here is what you want to know about the lives of great black men and women during the fabulous Harlem Renaissance: louis "satchmo" armstrong eubie blake thomas andrew dorsey w. e. b. du bois duke ellington james reese europe jessie redmon fauset marcus garvey w. c. handy fletcher henderson langston hughes zora neale hurston hall johnson henry johnson oscar micheaux philip payton jr. gertrude "ma" rainey paul robeson augusta savage noble sissle bessie smith james van der zee dorothy west carter g. woodson "The books in the Black Stars series are the types of books that would have really captivated me as a kid." -Earl G. Graves, Black Enterprise magazine "Inspiring stories that demonstrate what can happen when ingenuity and tenacity are paired with courage and hard work." -Black Books Galore! Guide to Great African American Children's Books "Haskins has chosen his subjects well . . . catching a sense of the enormous obstacles they had to overcome. . . . Some names are familiar, but most are little-known whom Haskins elevates to their rightful place in history." -Booklist "The broad coverage makes this an unusual resource-a jumping-off point for deeper studies." -Horn Book
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The Harlem Renaissance
Adam Scgaefer, A. R. Schaefer
Library Binding (Heinemann/Raintree, July 1, 2003)Describes the time period known as the Harlem Renaissance, during which African American artists, poets, writers, thinkers, and musicians flourished in Harlem, New York.
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The Harlem Renaissance
Stuart A. Kallen
Library Binding (Lucent Books, May 29, 2009)Overview of the African American cultural movement that began in the 1920s and was centered in Harlem, New York.
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Celeste's Harlem Renaissance
Eleanora E. Tate
Paperback (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Jan. 1, 2009)It's 1921, and when Celeste Lassiter Massey goes to stay with her Aunt Valentina in Harlem, she is not thrilled to trade her friends and comfortable North Carolina surroundings for scary big city life with a famous actress. While Celeste absorbs the excitement of the Harlem Renaissance in full swing, she sees as much grit as glamour. A passionate writer, talented violinist, and aspiring doctor, Celeste eventually faces a choice between ambition and loyalty, roots and horizons. The decision will change her forever.
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