Harlem Renaissance
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The Harlem Renaissance was a flowering of art in the United States in the 1920s and early 1930s led by the African-American community based in Harlem, New York City. Jazz music, literature, and painting were important componants. Major figures included:

Writers

• Ralph Ellison, novelist
• Zora Neale Hurston, novelist, anthropologist
• Nella Larsen, novelist
• Langston Hughes, poet
• Jessie Fausset, novelist
• Countee Cullen, poet
• Claude McKay, poet
• James Weldon Johnson, poet

Painters

• John T. Biggers
• Edward Burra
• Aaron Douglas
• William H. Johnson
• Lois Mailou Jones
• Jacob Lawrence
• Hale Woodruff

Musicians

• Louis Armstrong
• Duke Ellington
• Fletcher Henderson

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