Jessie Redmon Fauset
As the literary editor of The Crisis (1919–1926) she introduced many Harlem Renaissance writers, including Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer, to the public, in addition to being a writer herself.
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Alice Dunbar Nelson
Harlem Renaissance poet, critic, journalist, and activist
Augusta Savage
Key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, an influential sculptor and educator
Hallie Quinn Brown
African American educator, writer, and women’s rights activist, renowned for her contributions to education and the fight for racial and gender equality.
Lois Mailou Jones
Harlem Renaissance artist and educator
Laura Wheeler Waring
With Edmonia Lewis, Meta Vaux Warrick, and Augusta Savage, Waring is one of the foremost Black American female artists of the first half of the twentieth century.
Mary P Burrill
Mary P. Burrill was a celebrated playwright whose works inspired many prominent writers of the New Negro Movement/Harlem Renaissance. She used her plays to confront many topics, including, but not limited to, lynching, the Black experience, and bodily autonomy for women.
Bessie Smith
Acknowledged as one of the greatest blues singers of the twentieth century, Bessie Smith reigned as the “Empress of the Blues” throughout most of the 1920s.
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Georgia Douglas Johnson was one of the most well-known Black female writers and playwrights of her time. Known for writing most about love and womanhood, Douglas Johnson’s published works touched many and were featured in the most widely-read Black publications of the twentieth century.
Anne Spencer
Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer lived her entire life in Virginia, where she tended her garden, worked as a librarian and teacher, hosted luminaries of Black intellectual and cultural life, and fought for equal rights for African Americans.