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Josephine Baker
American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)
Duke Ellington
American jazz pianist and composer (1899–1974)
Langston Hughes
American writer and social activist (1901–1967)
Marcus Garvey
Jamaica-born British political activist, Pan-Africanist, orator, and entrepreneur (1887-1940)
Zora Neale Hurston
African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891–1960)
Paul Robeson
American singer, actor, and political activist (1898–1976)
Carl Van Vechten
American writer and photographer (1880–1964)
Harlem Renaissance
African-American cultural movement in New York City in the 1920s
Nella Larsen
American novelist, librarian, nurse (1891–1964)
Faith Ringgold
African American painter and sculptor (1930–2024)
James Weldon Johnson
American writer and activist (1871–1938)
Claude McKay
Jamaican American writer, poet (1889–1948)
Augusta Savage
American sculptor (1892–1962)
Alice Dunbar Nelson
American writer, activist (1875-1935)
Adelaide Hall
American-born jazz singer and actor (1901–1993)
Bill Robinson
American dancer and actor (1877/1878–1949)
Alain LeRoy Locke
American philosopher and writer (1885–1954)
A. Philip Randolph
Black American civil rights activist, labor unionist, politician (1889-1979)
Jessie Redmon Fauset
American novelist (1882–1961)
Countee Cullen
American author (1903–1946)
Jean Toomer
American poet and novelist (1894–1967)
Gladys Bentley
American blues singer
William Grant Still
American composer (1895–1978)
Loïs Mailou Jones
African American painter (1905–1998)
Nicholas Brothers
American tap dancing duo
Charles Alston
African-American visual artist (1907-1977)
Dorothy West
American writer (1907-1998)
Aaron Douglas
African-American painter, illustrator and visual arts educator (1899–1979)
Angelina Weld Grimké
American poet, playwright, and journalist (1880–1958)
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
American writer (1902–1981)
Wallace Thurman
American novelist active during the Harlem Renaissance (1902–1934)
Walter White
American civil rights activist (1893-1955)
Anne Spencer
American poet (1882–1975)
James Van Der Zee
African American photographer (1886–1983)
Laura Wheeler Waring
African American painter (1887-1948)
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
American artist (1877–1968)
Hubert Harrison
United States Virgin Islands writer (1883-1927)
Pauline Hopkins
American novelist, journalist, playwright, historian, and editor (1859-1930)
Beauford Delaney
African American artist (1901-1979)
Arna Bontemps
American poet, novelist (1902–1973)
Georgia Douglas Johnson
American poet and playwright
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Puerto Rican historian, writer and activist (1874–1938)
Richard Bruce Nugent
American writer (1906-1987)
Zaidee Jackson
American actress
May Miller
American writer (1899-1995)
William Stanley Braithwaite
American writer, poet and literary critic (1878-1962)
Sterling Allen Brown
American writer (1901-1989)
Clarissa Scott Delany
American writer (1901-1927)
Charles Spurgeon Johnson
(1893-1956) American sociologist and university administrator
Helene Johnson
American poet (1906–1995)
Mary P. Burrill
American playwright (1881-1946)
Marita Bonner
African-American writer (1898-1971)
Eric D. Walrond
Guyanese writer (1898-1966)
Archibald Motley
African American artist (1891-1981)
Elba Lightfoot
African-American painter
Rudolph Fisher
American physician (1897–1934)
Passing
novel by Nella Larsen
James Latimer Allen
American photographer
Lafayette Theater
former theater and movie theater in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, United States
Anise Boyer
American dancer and actress