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Harlem Renaissance Pathfinder

Web Sites Specific to the Harlem Renaissance

Books

The following is a list of books in our FHUHS library collection that pertain to some aspect of the Harlem Renaissance.

  • American Decades. R973.92 A
  • Anderson, Marian. My Lord, What a Morning: An Autobiography. 92 A
  • Angelou, Maya. All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes. 92 A
  • Angelou, Maya. The Completed Collected Poems of Maya Angelou. 811.54 A
  • Angelou, Maya. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. 92 A
  • Ashe, Arthur. A Hard Road to Glory. 3 volumes. 796 ASH
  • Barrow, Joe Louis. Joe Louis: 50 years an American Hero. 92 LOUIS
  • Bechet, Sidney. Treat It Gentle. 780.92
  • Blesh, Rudi. Shining Trumpets: A History of Jazz. 780.973 B
  • Bolden, Tonya. Wake Up Our Souls. 704.03 BOL
  • Boyd, Valerie. Wrapped in Rainbows. 92 Hurston
  • Bradford, Sarah H. Harriet Tubman: the Moses of Her People. 92 T
  • Britton, Crystal A. African American Art: the Long Struggle. 704 B
  • Brothers, Thomas David. Louis Armstrong’s New Orleans. 92 ARM
  • Brooks, Lonnie. Blues for Dummies. 781.643 B
  • Brown, Claude. Manchild in the Promised Land. 92 B
  • Brown, Lois. Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance. R 810.9 B
  • Burns, Ric and James Sanders. New York: An Illustrated History. 974.7 B
  • The Cambridge Companion to The Harlem Renaissance. Edited by George Hutchinson. 810.9 C
  • Carmichael, Stokely. Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America. 323.4 C
  • Chambers, Veronica. The Harlem Renaissance. 700.89 C
  • Chapman, Abraham. Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature. 810.8
  • Chiswick, Linton. Milestones of Jazz: a Chronological History of Jazz Music in Photographs. 781.6 Chi
  • The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. 811 HUG
  • Davis, Angela Yvonne. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. 782.421643 D
  • Delaney, Sarah Louise. Having Our Say: the Delaney Sisters’ First 100 Years. 920 D
  • Dicaire, David. Blues Singers: Biographies of 50 Legendary Artists of the Early 20th Century. 781.643 D
  • Douglass, Frederick. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. 92 D
  • Duberman, Martin Bauml. Paul Robeson. 92 ROB
  • Du Bois, Shirley Graham. His Day Is Marching On; A Memoir of W. E. B. Du Bois. 92 D
  • Du Bois, W. E. B. W. E. B. Du Bois: A Reader. 973
  • Ellington, Duke. Music Is My Mistress, by Edward Kennedy Ellington. 92 E
  • Elmer, Howard. Blues, Its Birth and Growth. 781.643 E
  • Encyclopedia of the Great Black Migration. 3 vols. ed. by Steven A. Reich. REF 307.2 ENC
  • Ewen, David. Panorama of American Popular Music. 780.973 E
  • Feather, Leonard. The New Edition of the Encyclopedia of Jazz. R785.03
    *Foner, Philip S. Frederick Douglas. 92 D
  • Freedman, Russell. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marion Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights. 92 AND
  • Gammond, Peter, ed. Duke Ellington: His Life and Music. 92 ELL
  • The Garden Thrives: Twentieth Century African-American Poetry. 811 GAR
  • Gardner, Helen D. Art Through the Ages. 709 G
  • Gates, Henri Louis. The African-American Century: How Black Americans Have Shaped Our Country. 920 G
  • Gioia, Ted. The History of Jazz. 781.65 G
  • Govenar, Alan. African American Frontiers: Slave Narratives and Oral Histories. 920 G
  • Great People of the Twentieth Century. 920 G
  • The Harlem Reader: A Celebration of New York’s Most Famous Community. Edited by Herb Boyd. 974.7 H
  • Harlem Renaissance: a Gale Critical Companion. 3 volumes. R810.9 H
  • Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance. Edited by Cary D. Wintz. 810.9 HAR 2 copies
  • Haskins, Jim. The Harlem Renaissance. 700 H
  • Hillstrom, Kevin. The Harlem Renaissance. Defining Moments. 810.9 HIL
  • Howes, Kelly King. Harlem Renaissance. 700 H
  • Hoyt, Edwin Palmer. Paul Robeson, the American Othello. 92 R
  • Hughes, Langston. The Dream Keeper and Other Poems. 811 H
  • Hughes, Langston. The Negro Speaks of Rivers. 811 HUG
  • Hughes, Langston. Vintage Hughes. 811 H
  • Hurston, Zora Neale. Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings. LOA 92 HUR
  • I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African-American Poetry. 811 I
  • Jacques, Geoffrey. Free Within Ourselves: The Harlem Renaissance. 700 J
  • Jasen, David. 35 Hit Songs by Great Black Songwriters. 782.42 J
  • The Jim Crow Encyclopedia. 2 vols. ed. by Nikki L. M. Brown and Barry M. Stentiford. REF 305.896 J
  • Johnson, Cecil. Guts: Legendary Black Rodeo Cowboy Bill Pickett. 92 PIC
  • Johnson, Helene. This Waiting for Love: Helene Johnson, Poet of the Harlem Renaissance. 811.54 J
  • Jones, Hettie. Big Star Fallin’ Mama: Five Women in Black Music. 920 JON
  • Katz, William Loren. Black Legacy: A History of New York’s African Americans. 974.7 K
  • Lanning, Michael Lee. The African-American Soldier. 355 L
  • Larsen, Nella. The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen. SC LAR
  • Lee, Jeanne. Jam!: The Story of Jazz Music. 781.65 L
  • Levin, Floyd. Classic Jazz: a Personal View of the Music and the Musicians. 781.65 L
  • Lewis, David L. W. E. B. Dubois–Biography of a Race, 1868-1919. 92 DU
  • Lewis, David L. W. E. B. Dubois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century. 92 DUBOIS
  • Lewis, John. Walking with the Wind: a Memoir of the Movement. 92 L
  • Lloyd, Craig. Eugene Bullard: Black Expatriate in Jazz-Age Paris. 940.4 L
  • Lomax, Alan. Mister Jelly Roll; the Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and Inventor of Jazz. 92 M
  • Louis, Joe. Joe Louis: My Life. 92 L
  • Lyons, Mary E. Sorrow’s Kitchen: The Life and Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston. 92 H
  • McMurry, Linda O. To Keep the Waters Troubled: the Life of Ida B. Wells. 92 WELLS
  • Major Modern Black American Writers. 810.9 M
  • Meltzer, Milton. Langston Hughes, an Illustrated Edition. 92 HUGHES
  • Meltzer, Milton. Langston Hughes, a Biography. 92 H
  • New York Times Great Lives of the Twentieth Century. 920 N
  • Norton Anthology African American Literature. 810.8 N
  • The Oxford Companion to African American Literature. 810.8 O
  • Powell, Richard J. Black Art and Culture in the 20th Century. 700.89 P
  • A Renaissance in Harlem: Lost Voices of an American Community. 810.8 R
  • Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance. 704 R
  • Riley, James A. Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball League. R796.357 R
  • Riley, James A. The Negro Leagues. 796.357 R
  • Shimmy, Shimmy, Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance Through Poems. Edited by Nikki Giovanni. 811 SHI 2 copies.
  • Steed, Janna Tull. Duke Ellington: A Spiritual Biography. 92 ELL
  • Stein Crease, Stephanie. Duke Ellington: His Life in Jazz with 21 Activities. 92 ELL
  • Sterling, Dorothy. Lift Every Voice; the Lives of Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell, and James Weldon Johnson. 920.073 S
  • Stone, Tanya Lee. Ella Fitzgerald. Up Close Series. 92 FIT
  • Szwed, John F. Jazz 101: a Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Jazz. 781.65 S
  • Tanner, Paul. A Study of Jazz. 781.5 T
  • Time-Life Books, editors. African Americans: Voices of Triumph. Creative Fire. 973
  • Time-Life Books, editors. African Americans: Voices of Triumph. Perseverance. 973
  • Time-Life Books, editors. The Cowboys. 978
  • Time-Life Books, editors. This Fabulous Century. 4 volumes: 1870-1900, 1900-1910, 1910-1920, 1920-1930. 917.39 and 917.40
  • Travis, Dempsey J. The Louis Armstrong Odyssey. 92 A
  • Voices From the Harlem Renaissance. 810.8 VOI
  • Wallace, Maurice. Langston Hughes: The Harlem Renaissance. 92 HUG
  • Ward, Geoffrey C. Jazz, a History of America’s Music. 781.65 W
  • White, Shane. Stylin’: African American Expressive Culture From Its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit. 305.896 W
  • Wood, Ean. The Josephine Baker Story. 92 B
  • Woog, Adam. Duke Ellington, The Importance of. 92 ELL
  • Yannuzzi, Della A. Zora Neale Hurston: Southern Storyteller. 92 H
  • Zora Neale Hurston. (Modern Critical Views). 813 Z
  • Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God. (Modern critical interpretations).
    813 Z

Videorecordings

  • Against the Odds: Artists of the Harlem Renaissance. 704 A
  • Ella Fitzgerald: forever Ella. 92 FITZGERALD
  • Harlem Renaissance: The Music and Rhythms That Started a Cultural Revolution. 781.73 H
  • Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns. 10 Episodes. 781.65 J
  • Langston Hughes. Voices & Visions. 92 H
  • On the Road with Duke Ellington. 92 ELL
  • Paul Robeson, tribute to an artist. 812 E
  • Satchmo. 92 A
  • The Story of Jazz. 781 S
  • W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices. 92 DUB

DVDs

  • Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. 92 JOH
  • Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun. 92 HUR
  • Zora’s Roots: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. 92 HUR

Audiorecordings

  • Classic Jazz. 781.65
  • Louis Armstrong’s Greatest Hits. 781 A

Kit

  • Harlem Renaissance. Jackdaw Publications. 22 study prints & 1 study guide. 700 H

Filmstrip

  • The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond. (Social Studies Department) 810.9 HAR
Updated: December 2, 2009 by Mrs. Burlette
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