Harlem Renaissance
Nora Holt (1885–1974)
Nora Holt was an important figure in the history of Black music in Chicago in the 1930s and was a...
Richard Bruce Nugent (1906-1987)
Richard Bruce Nugent (also Bruce Nugent), artist, writer, actor, dancer, dilettante, and bohemian of 1920s Harlem, was born to middle...
Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Early 20th Century Harlem Radicalism
In the article below independent historian Jeffrey Perry discusses his 2008 book on early 20th Century Harlem activist Hubert Harrison....
Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson (1906-1968)
Ellsworth Raymond “Bumpy” Johnson was an American gangster in Harlem, New York in the 20th century. He has been the...
Wallace Thurman (1902-1934)
Wallace Thurman was born in Salt Lake City, Utah on August 16, 1902 to Beulah and Oscar Thurman. He was...
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
Harlem Renaissance writer Festus Claudius McKay was born on September 15, 1889, in Sunny Ville, in the Clarendon Hills of...
