Harlem Renaissance Archives

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

Harlem Renaissance poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor

Dorothy West

Harlem Renaissance novelist

Ethel Ray Nance was an African American activist and writer. During the 1920s, she broke various racial and gender barriers in Minnesota, participated in the Harlem Renaissance movement, worked as a secretary for the National Urban League, and contributed to Opportunity magazine.

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.

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.