Claude McKay poet, novelist, short story writer photo by James L. Allen

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Claude McKaypoet, novelist, short story
writerphoto by James L. Allen
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Countee Cullen (1903-1946)poet, novelist,
playwrightphoto by James L. Allen
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Zora Neal Hurston (1891 - 1960)Writer,
Folklorist, Anthropologistphoto by Carl Van
Vechten
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Harlem writers and intellectualsGuests at a
party for Langston Hughes at the home of
librarian Regina Andrews and Ethel Ray Nance (580
St. Nicholas Avenue), 1924. Left to right Poet
Langston Hughes, sociologist Charles Spurgeon
Johnson, historian E. Franklin Frazier, doctor
and author Rudolph Fisher, and legislator Hubert
Delaney.
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James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)writer, poet,
statesman
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The Wall Street Boys Associationc. 1925
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Aaron Douglas (1898 - 1979)with Arthur Schomburg
and the Song of Towers mural, 1934.Photo credit
Works Projects Administration Collection
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Augusta Fells Savage (1882 - 1962)sculptor,
teacherin her studio with "The Harp", based on
'Lift Every Voice and Sing' by James Weldon
Johnsonphoto by Morgan Marvin Smith, 1936
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Edward Kennedy (Duke) Ellington(1899-1974)
composer, musician, band leader
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James Reese Europewith one of the Clef Club Bands
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James Reese Europewith the 369th Regiment
Military Band (the "Harlem Hellfighters") in
Paris, 1917
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Fletcher Henderson(1897-1952) musician, band
leader, jazz pianist, arranger
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The Frogsorganization of African-American
Theater Professionals, 1908photo by White Studios
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Charles S. Gilpin (1878-1930)actor, as "The
Emperor Jones (by Eugene ONeill)
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Paul Robeson Actor, Singer, Political Activist
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Ethel Waters (1896-1977)singer, actress, c. 1933
in As Thousands Cheer
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Madame C. J. Walker (1867-1919)beauty culturist,
entrepreneur, philanthropistCourtesy of the
Walker Company
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Alelia WalkerHostess of many parties for
literary
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Arturo (Arthur) Alfonso Schomburg
(1874-1938)bibliophile, historian, writer,
collector, curator
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William Edward Burghardt DuBois
(1868-1963)writer, historian and teacher
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The Crisis A Record of the Darker Races
(1910-present)
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The Silent Protestparade organized by Harlem
religious and civic leaders and the NAACP, 1917
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Children in the Silent Protest Parade, 1917Page
from The Brownies Book, published by NAACP
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UNIA ParadeOrganized in Harlem, 1924
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Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940)leader of the
Universal Negro Improvement Association, first
African-American leader in American history to
organize masses of people in a political
movementphoto by James Van der Zee