The Harlem Renaissance
Possible Research Topics
Music & Musicians
Louis Armstrong
Blues
Cab Calloway
Duke Ellington
Jazz
Dizzie Gillespie
Billie Holiday
Jimmie Lunceford
Ma Rainey
Shuffle Along (musical)
Bessie Smith
Fats Waller
Ethel Waters
Chick Webb
Fiction & Fiction Writers
Arna Bontemps
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Zora Neale Hurston
Nella Larsen
Rudolph Fisher
Wallace Thurman
Eric Walrond
Dorothy West
Poetry & Poets
Gwendolyn Bennett
Sterling Brown
Countee Cullen
Angelina Weld Grimké
Langston Hughes
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Helene Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
Claude McKay
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Jean Toomer
Art & Artists
Josephine Baker
Romare Beardon
Dance (Charleston, tap, etc.)
Aaron Douglas
Palmer C. Hayden
Meta Warrick Fuller
Willam H. Johnson
Jacob Lawrence
Modern Primitivism
Paul Robeson
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson
Augusta Savage
James VanDerZee
Thought & Culture
Regina M. Anderson
Apollo Theater
The Cotton Club
The Crisis
W.E.B. DuBois
Fire!!
Marcus Garvey
Alain Locke
NAACP
Opportunity
Savoy Ballroom
Carl Van Vechten