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8th Grade History Research:
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Artists and Writers of the Harlem Renaissance

Street Life, Harlem, ca. 1939-1940
William H. Johnson (1901-1970)
oil on wood
116.2 x 36.1 cm (45 3/4 x 38 5/8 in.)
Gift of the Harmon Foundation
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Smithsonian

Suggested Sources in for information about specific artists and writers

Reference Books:

*Dictionary of American Negro Biography
*Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
*Print encyclopedias
*Online Encyclopedias
*Gale's Biography Resource Center

Other Library books and videos:

Against the odds: artists of the Harlem Renaissance (video)

Harlem Renaissance : Art of Black America

The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader

Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems

*Hardy, P. Stephen. Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance

Haskins, James. The Harlem Renaissance

Hill, Laban Carrick. Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance

Huggins, Nathan Irvin. Harlem Renaissance

Websites:

Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and After

Artists by Movement: The Harlem Renaissance

Entertainers of the Harlem Renaissance

Harlem 1900-1940: An African American Community
(see "Exhibition")

Bibliography format:

Here is a link to the bibliography format (MLA style)