Harlem Renaissance & 1920s Culture

Poet, novelist, playwright of Harlem Renaissance; poems I, Too and Mother to Son

• Countee Cullen

• Jessie Redmon Fauset

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Langston Hughes

African American boxer during the 1920s

• Jack Johnson

• Oscar Micheaux

• Aaron Douglas

• Countee Cullen

Blues singer; called Empress of the Blues

• Duke Ellington

• Bessie Smith

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Louis Armstrong

Novelist and anthropologist of the Harlem Renaissance; one of her most famous novels There Eyes Were Watching God

• Jessie Redmon Fauset

• Bessie Smith

• Zora Neale Hurston

• Josephine Baker

Famous jazz pianist, composer, conductor during the Harlem Renaissance; Known for big band jazz

• Duke Ellington

• Bessie Smith

• Aaron Douglas

• Louis Armstrong

Famous jazz trumpeter and conductor during the Harlem Renaissance; nicknamed Satchmo.

• Duke Ellington

• George Gershwin

• Aaron Copland

• Louis Armstrong

Famous artist during the Harlem Renaissance that used his art to bring attention to racism and segregation

• Georgia O'Keeffe

• Jacob Lawrence

• Aaron Douglas

• James Van der Zee

Most photographs taken of African American life in NYC during the Harlem Renaissance were by him

• Oscar Micheaux

• Langston Hughes

• Aaron Douglas

• James Van der Zee

Produced over 40 movies during the 1920s that had all African American casts. His movies discussed critical topics from an African American point of view.

• Oscar Micheaux

• Jacob Lawrence

• Aaron Douglas

• James Van der Zee

Harlem Renaissance poet; preferred to write positively about racial topics and urged others to write poems in standard, traditional styles on standard topics.

• Countee Cullen

• Jessie Redmon Fauset

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Langston Hughes