The Harlem Renaissance was one of the richest, most vibrant, and most culturally generative artistic periods in American history and the work that emerged from that period continues to shape the landscape of American arts and letters today. In this episode, we’re going to explore some of the writers, artists, and musicians who turned Harlem into a world-renowned hub of art and culture, and delve into the factors that brought them all together in the first place. Clint's book, How the Word is Passed is available now! https://bookshop.org/a/3859/9780316492935 VIDEO SOURCES https://americanart.si.edu/artist/richmond-barthe-27551 https://www.howardgreenberg.com/artists/james-van-der-zee https://danforth.framingham.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/TMA.SeptOct20-REV.pdf https://danforth.framingham.edu/exhibition/meta-fuller/ https://poets.org/poet/langston-hughes https://sites.ed.gov/whhbcu/one-hundred-and-five-historically-black-colleges-and-universities/ https://www.nypl.org/blog/2020/10/05/arturo-schomburg-his-life-and-legacy https://www.naacp.org/naacp-history-james-weldon-johnson/ https://www.britannica.com/topic/Harlem-poem-by-Hughes https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46548/harlem https://www.biography.com/activist/walter-white https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gwendolyn-Bennett https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zora-Neale-Hurston https://music.si.edu/story/jazz https://www.pcs.org/archive/blog/item/under-the-influence-of-the-blues#:~:text=Almost%20every%20genre%20of%20popular,and%20style%20to%20blues%20music. https://wmich.edu/mus-gened/mus150/CB-Ellington.htm https://www.rbsclibrary.com/langston-hughes.html https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200038834/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eubie-Blake https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/countee-cullen https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/claude-mckay Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (New York: Pantheon Books, 1998). Cheryl Wall, Women of the Harlem Renaissance (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995). Watch our videos and review your learning with the Crash Course App! Download here for Apple Devices: https://apple.co/3d4eyZo Download here for Android Devices: https://bit.ly/2SrDulJ Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Thanks to the following patrons for their generous monthly contributions that help keep Crash Course free for everyone forever: DL Singfield, Jeremy Mysliwiec, Shannon McCone, Amelia Ryczek, Ken Davidian, Brian Zachariah, Stephen Akuffo, Toni Miles, Oscar Pinto-Reyes, Erin Nicole, Steve Segreto, Michael M. Varughese, Kyle & Katherine Callahan, Laurel A Stevens, Vincent, Michael Wang, Stacey Gillespie, Jaime Willis, Krystle Young, Michael Dowling, Alexis B, Rene Duedam, Burt Humburg, Aziz Y, DAVID MORTON HUDSON, Perry Joyce, Scott Harrison, Mark & Susan Billian, Junrong Eric Zhu, Alan Bridgeman, Rachel Creager, Jennifer Smith, Matt Curls, Tim Kwist, Jonathan Zbikowski, Jennifer Killen, Sarah & Nathan Catchings, Brandon Westmoreland, team dorsey, Trevin Beattie, Divonne Holmes à Court, Eric Koslow, Jennifer Dineen, Indika Siriwardena, Khaled El Shalakany, Jason Rostoker, Shawn Arnold, Siobhán, Ken Penttinen, Nathan Taylor, William McGraw, Andrei Krishkevich, ThatAmericanClare, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Ferguson, Alex Hackman, Jirat, Katie Dean, neil matatall, TheDaemonCatJr, Wai Jack Sin, Ian Dundore, Matthew, Justin, Jessica Wode, Mark, Caleb Weeks __ Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Tumblr - http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com/ Support Crash Course on Patreon: http://patreon.com/crashcourse CC Kids: null #crashcourse #history #blackhistory