English 3: The Harlem Renaissance: Home

The Virtual Harlem project is a virtual representation of Harlem, New York as it existed during the Harlem Renaissance/Jazz Age. The project is one of the earliest virtual reality environments created for use in the humanities and especially for the use in an African American literature course. It was originally conceived by Dr. Bryan Carter while he was completing his doctoral studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia (UCM).

Poets.org - When considering essential movements in American poetry, no conversation would be complete without a discussion of the Harlem Renaissance.

Library of Congress - Digital Collection of manuscripts, photographs, plays and sound recordings

Columbia University - presents a wealth of archival treasures about the history of one of the world' most famous and influential neighborhoods

history.com - Definition, artists, and how it started

Britannica

Library of Congress - This guide provides access to selected Library of Congress digital and print resources as well as links to external websites on the Harlem Renaissance

The Atlantic - Bad news: No antibiotics. Good news: Streetcars, everywhere!

census.gov - Browse by topic -- economy, education, employment, housing, income 7 poverty, population, race

ushistory.org - No aspect of the Harlem Renaissance shaped America and the entire world as much as jazz.

The music of the Harlem Renaissance has its roots in jazz. Jazz is considered a musical language of communication and was the first indigenous American style to affect music in the rest of the world. From the beat of ragtime syncopation and driving brass bands to soaring gospel choirs mixed with field hollers and the deep down growl of the blues, jazz's many roots are celebrated almost everywhere in the United States.

The Kennedy Center , Arts Edge - Faces of the Harlem Renaissance

The Culture Trip - While racism was still prevalent, the community bolstered a new era of creativity inhabited in the works of these seven artists.

African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond presents a selection of paintings, sculpture, prints, and photographs by forty-three black artists who explored the African American experience from the Harlem Renaissance through the Civil Rights era and the decades beyond, which saw tremendous social and political changes.

National Gallery of Art - While the Harlem Renaissance may be best known for its literary and performing arts—pioneering figures such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington, and Ma Rainey may be familiar—sculptors, painters, and printmakers were key contributors to the first modern Afrocentric cultural movement and formed a black avant-garde in the visual arts.

The pace of New York City, the blend of backgrounds of the people who settled in Harlem, and the difficulties associated with living in Harlem were among the experiences that found expression in theater, fiction, and music, among other art forms.

poetryfoudation.org - tracing the poetic work of this crucial cultural and artistic movement

libraryofcongress.org - This collection present ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist.