Search Results: Returned 13 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 13
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c2003, Pre-adolescent, Raintree Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African American biographies (Chicago, Ill.)Summary Note: Recounts the life of the famous blues singer who flourished during the 1920s.
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c1996., F. Watts Call No: 700 .89 9607307471 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African-American experienceSummary Note: Discusses the rise of the Harlem Renaissance in the early twentieth century and the artists responsible for the art, music, theater, prose, and poetry created in that era.
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2001., Juvenile, U X L Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY NF HOW Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a comprehensive overview of the events and people that comprised this rich period in American history in the early twentieth century.
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c1998., Pre-adolescent, Chelsea House Call No: 700 .89 9607307471 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recounts the vibrant personalities and remarkable cultural movements that flourished in America's leading African-American community during the 1920s and 1930s.
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c1998., Pre-adolescent, Chelsea House Pub. Call No: 700 .89 9607307471 Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African-American achieversSummary Note: Recounts the vibrant personalities and remarkable cultural movements that flourished in America's leading African-American community during the 1920s and 1930s.
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By Orr, Tamra[2019]., Juvenile, Lucent Press Call No: HI-INT 305.89 ORR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The Harlem Renaissance was an exciting period in American history, and readers are placed in the middle of this vibrant African American cultural movement through engaging main text, annotated quotations from historical figures and scholars, and carefully selected primary sources. Eye-catching sidebars and a comprehensive timeline highlight important artists, writers, and works from the Harlem Renaissance to give readers a strong sense of this essential social studies curriculum topic. The influence of the Harlem Renaissance can still be seen in the cultural contributions of African Americans today, making this a topic that is sure to resonate with readers"--
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[2014], Juvenile, Capstone Press Call No: 974.7 100496073 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: You choose: History.Summary Note: Describes the events of the Harlem Renaissance and explains its impact on arts and culture, in a book where the reader's choices reveal the historical details from three different perspectives.
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2009., Juvenile, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: HI-INT 810.9 HIL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Offers a cultural history of the Harlem Renaissance, discussing how it sparked a period of intellectual, artistic, literary, and political blossoming for many African-Americans.
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c2003, Pre-adolescent, Raintree Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African American biographies (Chicago, Ill.)Summary Note: Profiles African American writer Langston Hughes, who worked to promote a better understanding of people of different racial, religious, and cultural backgrounds through his poetry and lectures.
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c2006, Pre-adolescent, Compass Point Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Signature lives
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2017., Pre-adolescent, Bloomsbury Call No: HI-INT 811 GRI Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Moved by the evocative verse of legendary writers of the Harlem Renaissance, Nikki Grimes has composed gorgeous new poetry with timely themes for today, creating wholly original poems based on the works of master poets like Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Jean Toomer, and others.
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[2021]., Pre-adolescent, Penguin Workshop Call No: 974.71 SMI Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Series Title: What was--?Summary Note: "Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans--the poetry of Langston Hughes, the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, the sculptures of Augusta Savage, and that brand-new music called jazz as only Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong could play it. Author Sherri L. Smith traces Harlem's history all the way to its seventeenth-century roots, and explains how the early-twentieth-century Great Migration brought African Americans from the deep South to New York City and gave birth to the golden years of the Harlem Renaissance"--
