Harlem Renaissance Resources D. Reiss

Tombstones and Brownstones by Jacob Lawrence,
The Migration Series, Whitney Museum of Art

Harlem Renaissance Overview

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library: images and documents
Harlem Renaissance: information and images from AfricanAmericans.com
Harlem Renaissance links to authors and other information at Paul Reuben's Perspectives in American Literature (PAL)
A Brief Guide to the Harlem Renaissance at the Academy of American Poets
Poetic Form: Blues Tradition at the Academy of American Poets
A Brief Guide to Jazz Poetry at the Academy of American Poets

Harlem street 1939 by Sid Grossman
AfricanAmericans.com

The Street by Romare Bearden
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Jazz Portrait Harlem 1958 by Art Kane
Art Kane Archive
Musicians at Harlem.org

Langston Hughes

Hughes draft manuscript
for "Ballad of Booker T."
from American Memory Project

Langston Hughes from Academy of American Poets

Langston Hughes Project: Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz by Ron McCurdy and John Wright features audio and video from their multimedia performance of Hughes' composition
Guide to Langston Hughes at the Academy of American Poets
Langston Hughes Poetry at the Academy of American Poets includes the text of several poems and audio of Hughes reading "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
Listen to Langston Hughes' poetry read by Ossie Davis at Harper Audio
Listen to excerpts from the CD The Voice of Langston Hughes at amazon.com
Listen to excerpts from the CD Weary Blues with Charles Mingus and Langston Hughes at amazon.com
View the film about Langston Hughes at Voices and Visions by signing up for free video on demand