DuBois and James Weldon Johnson, accompanied by the writings of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, and Zora Neale Hurston. ... Quicksand (1928), by novelist Nella Larsen, offered a powerful psychological study of an African American woman's loss of identity, while Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) used folk life of the black rural south to create a brilliant study of race and gender in which a woman finds her true identity. ...
Du Bois (Sociologist, Civil Rights activist, writer, and editor), Duke Ellington (Big Band Musician, composer, pianist), Bessie Smith (American blues singer and songwriter), Zora Neale Hurston (American short story writer, autobiographer, novelist, and folklorist), and of course Langston Hughes, along with many many more. ...
What was the Harlem Renaissance? What is a renaissance? A renaissance is a movement or period of vigorous artistic and intellectual activity. There was a famous renaissance in Europe during the transition from medieval times to modern times that is still taught today. The Harlem Renaissance wa...