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Harlem Renaissance
	Harlem Renaissance. The Harlem Renaissance was a literary, artistic, cultural, intellectual movement that began in Harlem, New York after World War I and ended around 1935 during the Great Depression.This multimedia project is sponsored by John Carrol University.
	Harlem, 1900-1940: An African-American Community. This site is from the NY Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Include is a timeline of the Harman Renaissance, and web exhibits on Artists, Writers, Community Institutions, Business and Sports.
	Harlem Renaissance Web Sites. A list of links from ReadWriteThink. Includes sites that provide a general overview of the Harlem Renaissance, as well as links for important individuals.
	The Harlem Renaissance and the Flowering of Creativity This site comes from the Library of Congress' African American Odyssey collection, providing an excellent overview of the Harlem Renaissance. The nightclub music, prose, poetry, and visual arts of the period are briefly reviewed.
	Online Forum: Harlem Renaissance A discussion by university professors discussing the exotic, primitive images used by many artists of the period; the reasons Paris was uniquely receptive to black artists in the 1920s; the connection of the Harlem Renaissance to the civil rights movement; optimistic tone of the Harlem Renaissance despite the economic and cultural hurdles, and the reasons the Harlem renaissance ended. A clearly presented, thought-provoking site.
	Poetry Exhibits: Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and After Here you can read an overview of the contributions of noted poets of the Harlem renaissance and beyond. click on the name of each poet to link to a biography, a selected bibliography, examples of their poems, related online exhibits, and in some cases audio clips.
	Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro. This is an online version of the March 1925 of Survey Graphic, a special issue devoted to the cultural movement taking place in Harlem. This primary source document includes articles written by Alain Locke, James W. Johnson, W.E.B. DuBois and Countee Cullen, discussing the development and impact of the Harlem Renaissance.
	Art of the Harlem Renaissance This page gives a brief biography of several important artists of the Harlem Renaissance, along with examples of their art.
	Rhapsodies in Black Focusing on the visual arts of the Harlem Renaissance, this site presents excellent background information on several artists and their works, and lets you view their paintings and sculptures. artistic themes of the period - for example Modernism and Modernity, A Blues Aesthetic, and Imagining Africa - are all evaluated.
	Harlem Renaissance. A page of links from the Google Directory site on the Harlem Renaissance.
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Biographical Links
		Biography Reference Bank. Use this link to search for biographies of 100s of people from the Harlem Renaissance. Just click until the search page, and then enter the name of your person in the Quick Search block. To use this link from home, click here, go to the Biography section, and click on Biography Reference Bank
	Gale Student Resource Center -- In the "Search" box, enter the name of the person you are looking for. To use this link from home, click here, go to the Biography section, and click on the Gale Power Search link.
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