Zora Neale Hurston
Source: Photo 1938. Source Library of Congress
Gelatin Silver Print of Zora Neale Hurston by Carl Van Vechten
Manuscripts Related to Harlem Renaissance
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MSS 0099, F0938, Modern Editions Press Pamphlet Series One collectionAfrican-American poet and editor Kathleen Tankersley Young (1903-1933) was associated with the Harlem Renaissance. This small collection comprises setting copies of pamplets edited by Young for the first of two series from the Modern Editions Press.
Harlem Renaissance Special Collections Holdings
Harlem Renaissance Literature Holdings in Special Collection
The Harlem Renaissance (circa 1918-1937) was the most defining movement in African American literary history and art. The movement laid the ground work for all later African American literature and made a significant impact on Black literature worldwide. Marked by a burgeoning of African American artistic and intellectual flourishing beginning in Harlem, the Harlem Renaissance includes key figures, such as Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Countee Cullen. Below is a list of just a few of the works by Harlem Renaissance authors held by Special Collections.
Walter White: Rope & Faggot: a Biography of Judge Lynch
George Samuel Schuyler
Rudolph Fisher: The Walls of Jericho
Langston Hughes: The Weary Blues
Sterling Brown: Southern Roads
Nella Larsen: Quicksand, and Passing
Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mules and Men, Moses, Man of the Mountain, Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
Countee Cullen: The Ballad of the Brown Girl: an Old Ballad Retold, Copper Son, The Black Christ and Other Poems
Claude McKay: Banjo: a Story Without a Plot, A Long Way Home, Harlem Glory: a Fragment of Aframerican Life
Jean Toomer: Cane
Claude Brown: Manchild in the Promised Land and The Child of Ham
Sterling A. Brown: Negro Folk Expression: Spirituals, Seculars, Ballads and Work Songs, Georgia Sketches, Three Poems, Southern Road: Poems
Jessie Redmon Fauset: The Chinaberry Tree: a Novel of American Life
Rudolph Fisher: The Walls of Jericho
Alain Locke: Negro Art: Past and Present, Plays of Negro Life: A Source-book of Native American Drama, The New Negro: an Interpretation and Four Negro Poets
Richard Bruce Nugent: Beyond Where the Stars Stood Still
Wallace Thurman: The Interne, Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to the Young Negro Artists, Negro Life in New York’s Harlem: a Lively Picture of a Popular and Interesting Section
Eric Walrond: Tropic Death and Black and Unknown Bards: a Collection of Negro Poetry