The following articles, stories, and poems can be found in the anthologies and textbooks on the “Bibliography for Teachers.”
Arna Bontemps
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“The Awakening: A Memoir”
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“A Black Man Talks of Reaping”
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“Summer Tragedy”
Melvin Drimmer
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“Great Migration”
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“Marcus Garvey”
Rudolph Fisher
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“Miss Cynthie”
Langston Hughes
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“Afro-American Fragment”
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“As I Grew Older”
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from
The Big Sea
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“I, Too”
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“The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”
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“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
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“Nude Young Dancer”
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“Soul Food” (from the Simple stories)
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“Thank You M’am”
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“Theme For English B”
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“Who’s Passing For Who”
Zora Neale Hurston
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“The Gilded Six-Bits”
Charles S. Johnson
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“The New Frontage on American Life”
James W. Johnson
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“The Creation”
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“Harlem: The Culture Capital”
Alain Locke
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“Negro Youth Speaks”
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“The New Negro”
Claude McKay
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“America”
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“Harlem Dancer”
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Home To Harlem
(Chapter 1)
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“If We Must Die”
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“Outcast”
Jean Toomer
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from
Cane
Slides
The following are from Nathan Huggins’
Voices From The Harlem Renaissance
and David Driskell’s
Two Centuries of Black Art
.
Richmond Barthe
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“Feral Benga”
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“African Dancer”
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“Boxer”
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“Head of a Woman”
Aaron Douglas
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“Building More Stately Mansions”
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“Judgement Day”
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(from
The New Negro
: illustrations)
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(from
Fire
: illustrations)
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“Aspects of Negro Life” (3 panels)
Palmer Hayden
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“Midsummer Night in Harlem”
William H. Johnson
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“Self-Portrait” (1921-26)
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“Minnie”
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“Self-Portrait” (1929)
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“Mt. Calvery”
Sargent Johnson
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“Forever Free”
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“Mask”
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“Mask (Negro Mother)”
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“Negro Woman” (n.d.)
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“Negro Woman, 1933”
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“Head of a Negro Woman”
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“White and Black”
Archibald J. Motley
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“Portrait of My Grandmother”
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“Brown Girl after the Bath”
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“Blues”
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“Mending Socks”
Hale Woodruff
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“Mutiny on the Amistad”
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“The Trial of the Captive Slaves from The Amistad”
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“Return of the Natives from the Amistad Murals”
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“Celestial Gate”
From Allon Schoener’s
Harlem On My Mind
will be slides of photographs depicting Harlem during the 1920’s and of many of the famous figures of the period.
From Jim Haskins’
Cotton Club
will be slides of several photographs of performances at the Club as well as Harlem of the period.
Film Strips
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“The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond, Part 1”
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“The Great Migration, Parts 1 and 2” (Lee High School History Dept.)
If the teacher uses any of Langston Hughes’ Simple stories, the record “Simple” will be helpful. (Lee High School English Dept.)
