Celebrate one of the most important periods of American cultural
history: the Harlem Renaissance! This National Book Award Finalist takes
a breathtaking, in-depth look at this fascinating era featuring
beautiful illustrations, poetry, and prose.
Determined to make a new start for themselves at the dawn of the
twentieth century, many African Americans joined the Great Migration and
headed North. For those who landed in Harlem, New York, it was a time of
intellectual, artistic, literary, and political blossoming. Influential
African American artists and activists took center stage as they
captured the attention of the world.
Lavishly designed and illustrated, with photographs, historical
documents, and full-color paintings, this virtual time capsule is packed
with poetry, prose, and political rhetoric that introduce the amazing
lives and work of notable figures such as Langston Hughes, Zora Neale
Hurston, Sargent Johnson, and Marcus Garvey.