Harlem Renaissance Individuals
General Bios
Musicians
Duke Ellington
See Video Below
Schirmer Bio - Duke Ellington
PBS Musicians
America's Library
Louis Armstrong
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/armstrong/
http://www.conservapedia.com/Louis_Armstrong
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_armstrong_louis.htm
Bessie Smith
http://www.redhotjazz.com/bessie.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/debra-devi/bessie-smith_b_1450477.html
Ma Rainey
http://www.redhotjazz.com/Rainey.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/10320/Rainey.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0416
Marian Anderson
http://www.afrovoices.com/anderson.html
http://txtx.essortment.com/biographyofmar_rgtl.htm
Paul Robeson
Biography.com - Paul Robeson
PBS American Masters - Paul Robeson
U of Chicago - Paul Robeson
Fletcher Henderson
PBS - Fletcher Henderson
Red Hot Jazz - Fletcher Henderson
Jelly Roll Morton
http://www.redhotjazz.com/jellyroll.html
http://www.duke.edu/~nbp/
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_morton_jelly_roll.htm
See Video Below
Schirmer Bio - Duke Ellington
PBS Musicians
America's Library
Louis Armstrong
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/armstrong/
http://www.conservapedia.com/Louis_Armstrong
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_armstrong_louis.htm
Bessie Smith
http://www.redhotjazz.com/bessie.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/debra-devi/bessie-smith_b_1450477.html
Ma Rainey
http://www.redhotjazz.com/Rainey.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/10320/Rainey.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0416
Marian Anderson
http://www.afrovoices.com/anderson.html
http://txtx.essortment.com/biographyofmar_rgtl.htm
Paul Robeson
Biography.com - Paul Robeson
PBS American Masters - Paul Robeson
U of Chicago - Paul Robeson
Fletcher Henderson
PBS - Fletcher Henderson
Red Hot Jazz - Fletcher Henderson
Jelly Roll Morton
http://www.redhotjazz.com/jellyroll.html
http://www.duke.edu/~nbp/
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_morton_jelly_roll.htm
Duke Ellington
Entertainers and Artists of the Harlem Renassiance
Aaron Douglas
http://www.ops.org/wal/douglasweb/ad_artist.html
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon/dougharm.htm
William H. Johnson
http://www.iniva.org/harlem/william.html
Smithsonian - William H. Johnson
Artcyclopedia - William H. Johnson
James Van Der Zee
Scholastic.com - James Van Der Zee
Artcyclopedia - James Van Der Zee
Biography - James Van Der Zee
Photos - Smithsonian Collection - James Van Der Zee
Augusta Savage
Artcyclopedia - Augusta Savage
Encyclopedia Brittanica - Augusta Savage
Josephine Baker
http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/josephine-baker.html
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/baker_j.htm
Ethel Waters
Red Hot Jazz - Ethel Waters
PBS Jazz - Ethel Waters
http://www.jazzateria.com/roots/ewaters.html
Clayton Peg Leg Bates
Cricket Magazine - Peg Leg Bates
http://www.scafam-hist.org/search_detail.asp?FeatureMonth=12&FeatureYear=1991
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
Biography.com - Bill Bojangles Robinson
America's Library - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
PBS Broadway - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
http://www.ops.org/wal/douglasweb/ad_artist.html
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon/dougharm.htm
William H. Johnson
http://www.iniva.org/harlem/william.html
Smithsonian - William H. Johnson
Artcyclopedia - William H. Johnson
James Van Der Zee
Scholastic.com - James Van Der Zee
Artcyclopedia - James Van Der Zee
Biography - James Van Der Zee
Photos - Smithsonian Collection - James Van Der Zee
Augusta Savage
Artcyclopedia - Augusta Savage
Encyclopedia Brittanica - Augusta Savage
Josephine Baker
http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/josephine-baker.html
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/baker_j.htm
Ethel Waters
Red Hot Jazz - Ethel Waters
PBS Jazz - Ethel Waters
http://www.jazzateria.com/roots/ewaters.html
Clayton Peg Leg Bates
Cricket Magazine - Peg Leg Bates
http://www.scafam-hist.org/search_detail.asp?FeatureMonth=12&FeatureYear=1991
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
Biography.com - Bill Bojangles Robinson
America's Library - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
PBS Broadway - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
Countee Cullen
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ccullen.htm
http://www.poetrytodayonline.com/NOVcp.html
http://authors.aalbc.com/countee.htm
Zora Neale Hurston
http://www.americanwriters.org/classroom/resources/tr_hurston.asp
http://www.cas.usf.edu/anthropology/women/hurston/Zora.html
Langston Hughes
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/hughes.htm
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/hughes/aa_hughes_subj.html
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/hughes/aa_hughes_renaiss_1.html
Jean Toomer
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/71
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/toomer/toomer.htm
http://www.aalbc.com/authors/jean.htm
Claude McKay
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/mckay/mckay.htm
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/25
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ccullen.htm
http://www.poetrytodayonline.com/NOVcp.html
http://authors.aalbc.com/countee.htm
Zora Neale Hurston
http://www.americanwriters.org/classroom/resources/tr_hurston.asp
http://www.cas.usf.edu/anthropology/women/hurston/Zora.html
Langston Hughes
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/hughes.htm
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/hughes/aa_hughes_subj.html
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/hughes/aa_hughes_renaiss_1.html
Jean Toomer
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/71
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/toomer/toomer.htm
http://www.aalbc.com/authors/jean.htm
Claude McKay
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/mckay/mckay.htm
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/25
Activists of the Harlem Renaissance
W.E.B. DuBois
America's Story - W.E.B. DuBois
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96feb/dubois.html
Marcus Garvey
American Experience - Marcus Garvey
Faces of the Harlem Renaissance - Marcus Garvey
PBS - Marcus Garvey
Philip Randolph
Biography - Philip Randolph
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pu-Ro/Randolph-A-Philip.html
http://www.apri.org/ht/d/sp/i/225
http://www.georgemeany.org/apr.html
Walter White
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon/whitharm.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0701.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/white-walter.cfm
James Weldon Johnson
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/72
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/johnson/johnson.htm
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/johnson/johnson.html
America's Story - W.E.B. DuBois
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96feb/dubois.html
Marcus Garvey
American Experience - Marcus Garvey
Faces of the Harlem Renaissance - Marcus Garvey
PBS - Marcus Garvey
Philip Randolph
Biography - Philip Randolph
http://www.notablebiographies.com/Pu-Ro/Randolph-A-Philip.html
http://www.apri.org/ht/d/sp/i/225
http://www.georgemeany.org/apr.html
Walter White
http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/harmon/whitharm.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0701.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/white-walter.cfm
James Weldon Johnson
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/72
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/johnson/johnson.htm
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/johnson/johnson.html