Mr. Levin’s Pathfinder on the Harlem Renaissance

In our print collection

• Do a subject search using the Online Catalog. Type the following: Harlem Renaissance (Of course!) You’ll find lots of books in our collection! Most print resources on the Harlem Renaissance will be located in 700, 800s, 920s, and Biography.

• Check the American Heritage collection for articles on Harlem Renaissance.

• Check the African American Encyclopedia under Harlem Renaissance. Be sure to check the index for specific names or events.
  
  
• Check the general encyclopedias (i.e. World Book, Encyclopedia Americana, Compton’s, and others) by first using the index (usually found in the last volume).

Using the online information databases

The best ones to use are:

• An outstanding gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.
• A favorite encyclopedia among students.
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Using the "Free" Internet

Harlem Renaissance Resources

• African American World: Harlem Renaissance ~ from the PBS documentary
• Art Cyclopedia's Harlem Renaissance
• Harlem: 1900-1940: An African American Community ~ Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.
• Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro ~ Contains a facsimile of the March 1925 Survey Graphic magazine special issue about the Harlem Renaissance. The issue features essays, stories, and poems by Alain Locke, W.E.B. Du Bois, Arthur Schomburg, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and others. Includes original advertisements. From the University of Virginia Electronic Text Center.
• Harlem Renaissance Multimedia Resource ~ from John Carroll University
• Jazz: A History of America's Music ~ Information based on the Ken Burns/PBS film and book.
• Jazz Age Culture ~ from Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas
• Jazz Roots ~ Early jazz history
• Online NewsHour Forum: Harlem Renaissance
• Perspectives in American Literature: Chapter 9: Harlem Renaissance
• Poets of the Harlem Renaissance ~ from the Academy of American Poets
• Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance ~ An introduction to this period of the flowering of the arts: music, painting, dance, and literature in the black community in Harlem. Included are backgrounds for a few artists, a bibliography, and a chronology