h_renaissance

**Assignment**
Alone or with a partner you will work on creating a poster or a power point to accompany an original piece that explains some aspect of the Harlem Renaissance. Due dates for the presentations are May 1st, with a check-list for each piece of the assignment along the way. For a complete explanation of the project, please see the rubric below.



**Topics**
Possible topics for this project include:
 * General Topics**: Cotton Club, Savoy, Jim Crow, Lindy-Hoppers,
 * Activists/Thinkers:** Marcus Garvey, W.E. Dubois, James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, Bookder T. Washington
 * Poets:** Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Jessie Fauset
 * Novelists:** Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Nella Larson, Sterling Brown, Jean Toomer
 * Musicians/Performers:** Duke Ellington Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Bentley, Bojangles
 * Visual Artists:** William H. Johnson, Charles Alston, Palmer Hayden, Archibald Motley, Jacob Lawrence

**Books**
Because the Harlem Renaissance touched so many aspects of society, there is no one dewey call number you will find all the books you will need. You will find information in the arts section (700.97), History (974.7), Poetry (811), Biography (921), etc. Because of this, using subject headings to do a subject search, will be very helpful to you.

**Subject Headings** ** Harlem Renaissance. ** ** African Americans --Intellectual life ** ** African American arts --New York (State) --New York -- 20th century. ** ** Harlem (New York, N.Y.) --Intellectual life -- 20th century **

Our Central HS Library Catalog While I have pulled general books on the Harlem Renaissance, I did not pull books on specific people and topics. Find the **subject heading** appropriate and hopefully we have materials to help. We have limited books available at Central, so you may have to make use of the Public and University libraries. You will find links to there catalogs here:

Champaign Public Library If you would like to look at something from the library, remember that ordering can take up to 10 days, when they are 6 blocks down the street. Especially if you have a public library card, consider walking over there to look at and check out materials. Urbana Free Library Remember that if you have a Champaign Public library card, it is good to use at the Urbana Free Library as well! You can order from here using your Central HS number (just ask us if you don't have your library card still), **just remember to do it early!** University of Illinois You may not know it, but the University Library in our town is the largest **public** research library in North America. If you are an Illinois resident, you may obtain permission to check out books from the collection. While this is exciting, it is a bit daunting. Best to ask Ms. Hatcher or one of your teachers if there is something here that you could use for this project.

**Databases**
Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 10,000 articles by top scholars in the field and is the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture.

**[|Gale's Student Resource Center] ** provides holistic topic perspectives by integrating a multitude of content, including reference articles, news, primary sources, and audio clips.

**American National Biography ** **Portraits of more than 18,700 men and women--from all eras and walks of life--whose lives have shaped the nation. **

**Websites**
[|Harlem Renaissance]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">This Web site from California University features a bibliography about the works of various personalities of the Harlem Renaissance era.

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|Art of the Harlem Renaissance] > <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This Web site provides an introduction to the exhibition Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance, curated by David A. Bailey and Richard J. Powell and organized by the Hayward Gallery, London in collaboration with the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., and the Institute of International Visual Arts (inIVA). The Web site does not seek to be "encyclopedic" in its scope but rather seeks to provide a brief introduction to the exhibition and its critical and curatorial framework through a small selection of images and soundbites drawn primarily from the exhibition catalogue essays. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community] > <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This exhibit, which was originally published the Schomburg Center for Black Culture, New York Public Library, in 1991 traces the history of the urban experience in Harlem's early days through graphic and photographic images. <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|Harlem Renaissance] > <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Web site features a transcript of the February 20, 1998, television program "Harlem Renaissance" that was broadcast as part of the PBS "Newshour Forum. The program highlights an exhibit in San Francisco that explored the artistic and cultural legacies of the 1920s and 1930s. Discusses the art and culture of the Harlem Renaissance and profiles African-American artists of the period. [|Drop Me Off in Harlem: Faces of the Renaissance] <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">[|Harlem Renaissance Multimedia Resource] > <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">This Web site from John Carroll University is an ongoing project about the Harlem Renaissance. The site includes audio and video files. [|American Experience: Marcus Garvey] [|A Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials] [|Harlem Renaissance -- Black History Milestones on Bio.com]
 * <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;">"What happens when creative and intellectual minds, wealthy patrons, and fervent activists live in the same place? Discover how prominent figures in **Harlem** influenced, challenged, and supported one another in the period between 1917 and 1935.
 * Companion website to the film of the same title by PBS. Includes film transcript, Garvey's writings, video clips, and links to further reading.
 * Web guide to primary sources and external websites by the Library of Congress.

**Citing Sources**
If you are asked to cite your sources, here is a funky little free tool called NoodleBib Express. It generates a citation for you if you put in the appropriate info.