Re-centering Harlem Renaissance Women Writers

Georgia Douglas Johnson:

• Was mostly known as “The Lady Poet of the Harlem Renaissance”

• Only wrote poetry

• Spent years hosting salons in Harlem

Alice Dunbar Nelson:

• Only wrote about the Middle class

• Was an accomplished writer and activist

• Only wrote poetry

"Violets" was:

• Never published

• Alice Dunbar Nelson's signature piece

• Published while Alice Dunbar Nelson was still married to Paul Laurence Dunbar

To describe the experiences of Black women in America, Marion Vera Cuthbert used:

• Vignettes

• Traditional poetic style

• Poems

Marita O. Bonner won the first prize in The Crisis contest in:

• The Poem Category

• The Short Story Category

• The Essay Category

Both Ruth Whitehead Whaley and Marion Vera Cuthbert address :

• The myth of white manhood

• double discrimination

• double-consciousness