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Language
English
Description
"One of the most acclaimed artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston was a gifted novelist, playwright, and essayist. Drawn from three decades of her work, this anthology showcases her development as a writer, from her early pieces expounding on the beauty and precision of African American art to some of her final published works, covering the sensational trial of Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman convicted in 1952 for killing a white...
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (75 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Featuring commentary from historians and the performers themselves, this program traces the roots of the music of the Harlem Renaissance, its social impact on society and its eventual acceptance in mainstream culture.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
2 CDs (2 hrs., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stage and screen actor Avery Brooks recounts the birth of Harlem from the boll weevil to the Great Migration, and Kareem discusses how Harlem influenced his life. Featuring insights in their own voices by Marcus Garvey, Maya Angelou, Samuel L. Jackson, Bill Crystal, Louis Gossett Jr. and more.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Harlem, 1926. Young black women like Louise Lloyd are ending up dead. Following a harrowing kidnapping ordeal when she was in her teens, Louise is doing everything she can to maintain a normal life. She's succeeding, too. She spends her days working at Maggie's Café and her nights at the Zodiac, Harlem's hottest speakeasy. Louise's friends might say she's running from her past and the notoriety that still stalks her, but don't tell her that. When...
Author
Publisher
UXL
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxix, 293, xlii pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
This authoritative resource presents the people, places and times that defined an era and documents the launch of cultural development among African Americans in 1920s Harlem. This single volume contains almanac and biographies sections with primary source documents in sidebars throughout.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Harlem Renaissance combined art and social change. Readers will discover leaders and artists of the time, the Silent March, and why many say that we are living in a Black Renaissance"--
11) Harlem sunset
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harlem, 1926. After the tense summer that resulted in the death of murderer Theodore Gilbert, twenty-six-year-old Louise Lloyd has once again gained a level of notoriety. Reporters want to talk to her and she is in the spotlight--the last place she wants to be. Louise begins working at the Dove, owned by her close friend Rafael Moreno. There Louise meets Nora Davies, one of the girls she was kidnapped with nearly a decade ago. Nora is a little rough...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A twisty whodunit based on the efforts of David McKay, a young black attorney from one of Harlem's most respected families, to find out how his level-headed sister Lilian really died. Why would Lilian, a reclusive, conservative, sensible young woman, hang out in dives, hobnob with gangsters and become pregnant before her suspicious suicide?
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 CDs (2 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar examines some of the leading political and cultural figures of the Harlem Renaissance--including Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Langston Hughes, and many more.
19) Harlem summer
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis, an aspiring jazz saxophonist, gets a summer job as an errand boy for the publishers of the groundbreaking African American magazine, "The Crisis, " but soon finds himself on the enemy list of mobster Dutch Shultz.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
134 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Author Nikki Grimes offers a feminist-forward collection of poetry celebrating the little-known women poets of the Harlem Renaissance-- paired with full-color, original art from today's most talented female African-American illustrators. Taking inspiration from the unsung women poets of the era, Grimes uses the "Golden Shovel" poetry method to create original poems drawn from the words of women writers. Set alongside the original works, Grimes's poetry...
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