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Print Resources:

Bowser, Pearl, Jane Gaines, and Charles Musser, ed. Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: African-American Filmmaking and Race Cinema of the Silent Era. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001.

Erlewine, Michael, Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, and Scott Yanow, ed. All Music Guide to Jazz. San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books, 1998.

Gioia, Ted. The History of Jazz. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Krasner, David. A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002.

Lewis, David Levering, ed. The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader. New York: Penguin Books, 1994.

Lewis, David Levering. W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963. New York: Owl Books, 2001.

Lewis, David Levering. When Harlem Was in Vogue. New York: Penguin Books, 1979.

Miers, Charles, ed. Harlem Renaissance: Art of Black America. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987.

Smith, Jessie Carney. Black Firsts: 4,000 Groundbreaking and Pioneering Historical Events. Detroit: Gale Research, 2003.

Taylor, Billy. Billy Taylor's Taylor Made Piano. Dubuque, IA: Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1982.

Watson, Steven. The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930. New York: Pantheon Books, 1995.

Internet Resources:

100 Jazz Profiles
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazz/profiles/indexaz.shtml

African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aointro.html

The African American Registry
http://www.aaregistry.com/

American Experience: Marcus Garvey
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/garvey/

The Black Renaissance in Washington, D.C., 1920-1930s
http://www.dclibrary.org/blkren/index2.html

Cora Unashamed
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/cora/index.html

Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/

Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/harlem/

Harlem Renaissance: Pivotal Period in the Development of Afro-American Culture
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1978/2/78.02.03.x.html

Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/

Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project
http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa/mgpp/

Modern American Poetry
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/index.htm

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide
http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/CHAP9.HTML

Poets.org: A Brief Guide to the Harlem Renaissance
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5657

Rhapsodies in Black
http://www.iniva.org/harlem/home.html

Savoy Style
http://www.savoystyle.com

The Schomburg Legacy: Documenting the Global Black Experience for the 21st Century http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/WEBEXHIB/legacy/legacy2.htm

University of Virginia Library's Electronic Text Center
http://etext.virginia.edu/index.html

 


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