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American National Biography
- Indepth biographies of dead Americans. It may be used at home. See the media specialists for login and password.
Gale Student Resource Center
- See the Media Specialists for a password and user ID. Check the tabs for reference books, magazine and newspaper articles as well as pictures. Under the reference tab you'll find biography articles.
American Mosaic - African American Experience
- Original sources, articles, audio clips, images and reference materials give voice to the African-American experience from its African origins to the present day.
MagillOn History
- MagillOnHistory combines content history reference sets. It is comprised of 10,000 records, historical images, charts, graphs and maps, and biographical essays.
LitFinder
- Thomson Gale's Litfinder will have information on some of the well-known authors from the Harlem Renaissance period.
Grolier Online
- Search for Harlem Renaissance to get a good overview on this topic.
Brittanica Online
- Search for the Harlem Renaissance to find an overview plus biographies.
World Book Encyclopedia
- An on-line encyclopedia that has many biographies of people from the 20's.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- Kennedy Center site on the Harlem Renaissance
- Voices From the Gaps.
- Biographies of Jessie Fauset, Dorothy West, Zora Neal Hurston and others women writers of color.
- Great Day in Harlem
- A stylish explication of the faces behind Art Kane's classic 1958 photograph of the same name. Thelonius Monk, Art Blakey, Count Basie, and more than fifty other jazz greats are represented with short biographical sketches. A new Shockwave demo includes very brief sound clips from some of the more noted figures.
- Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance
- An introduction to this period of the flowering of the arts: music, painting, dance, and literature in the black community in Harlem. Included are backgrounds for a few artists, a bibliography, and a chronology.
- Poets of the Harlem Renaissance and After, The
- Hosted by The Academy of American Poets, this site provides biographical information on African American poets of the Harlem Renaissance as well as after that period. The site also includes full-text and/or audio samples of some poems. (Source: The Academy of American Poets) .
- Twenties Timeline
- This is an archived copy of Kevin Rayburn's site which was devoted to the Roaring Twenties. The site is divided into three sections. Timeline contains a descriptive list of political, literary, entertainment, and other events arranged in chronological order. People and Trends divides the decade into six subject areas, with each of these areas containing brief essays on specific topics. A Remarkable Decade presents the author's views of the decade.
- Flapper Culture and Style
- Archived copy of information about Louise Brooks and the flapper era with links to other sites.
- Artists of the Harlem Renaissance
- Painters, sculptors, and photographers with links to their works
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Search for Artists and their works. A biography of Palmer Hayden and Lois Mailou Jones are included.
- Langston Hughes: A Centennial Tribute
- Biography and links prepared by Howard University Library.
- Drop Me Off in Harlem
- Actors, dancers, musicians, writers and political activists
- James VanDerZee
- Biography and analysis of VanDerZee's portrait technique from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Search Engines
- There are many web search engines.
- In the Springbrook High School Library use the menu bar at the bottom of your screen to return to the Novell-delivered Applications. Choose Media Center Items. Search for a person's name or for Harlem Renaissance* Check the cart. Many books are there for your use.
- Noodle Tools
- Citing your sources is an important part of research. NoodleTools is a bibliography maker that helps you create a works cited page in correct MLA or APA format. You'll need the login and password available from the media specialists.
- Example of a Works Cited Page
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