Gwendolyn Bennett

• Gwendolyn Bennett's Short Story "Wedding Day" (1926)
• Additional Gwendolyn Bennet Poems
• Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981)

Arna Bontemps

• Arna Bontemps Bio
• Arna Bontemps Bio
• Arna Bontemps (3 poems)
• Arna Bontemps poetry

Countee Cullen

• Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
• Countee Cullen: Online Poems
• Countee Cullen: Online Poems
• Countee Cullen: Online Poems

Jessie Redmon Fauset

• Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)
• Jessie Redmon Fauset Bio
• Poetry
• Poetry

Rudolf Fisher

• Bio

Angelina Weld Grimke

• Angelina W. Grimke (bio and poems)

Langston Hughes

• Poetry Exhibits: Langston Hughes (Academy of American Poets--Use links on right side)
• Langston Hughes (assorted poems)
• Langston Hughes poetry & bio
• Hughes' "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" (1926)
• Langston Hughes (Actor Ossie Davis reads some of Hughes' works)

Zora Neale Hurston

• Their Eyes Were Watching God
  (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
• Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)

Charles S. Johnson

• Bio

James Weldon Johnson

• James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
• Poetry Exhibits: James Weldon Johnson

Nella Larsen

• Nella Larsen (1891-1964)

Claude McKay

• Claude McKay (1891-1948)
• Poetry: Claude McKay
• Poetry: Claude McKay
• Poetry: Claude McKay

Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson

• Alice Dunbar-Nelson (bio & essays)

Anne Spenser

• Ann Spenser (1882-1976)
• Poems

Jean Toomer

• Jean Toomer (Bio, essays, poems)

Smithsonian American Art Museum
Use the search feature on this site to locate works by the following artists.

Aaron Douglass

• Art
• Bio
• Aaron Douglass

Palmer Hayden

• Palmer Hayden Gallery
• Palmer Hayden

Sargent Johnson

• Art and Bio

William H. Johnson

• William H. Johnson Gallery
• Art
• William H. Johnson
• William H. Johnson

Lois Mailou Jones

• Art
• Bio
• Bio
• Art
• Lois Mailou Jones

Archibald Motley

• Archibald J. Motley Jr.
• Art & Bio

James Van Der Zee

• Art
• Art & Bio
• Art & Bio

Marian Anderson

• Penn Library: Exhibitions

Louis Armstrong

• Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong (1901-1971) (Requires Real Audio plug-in)
• Jazz Biographies: Louis Armstrong

Eubie BlakeBenny Carter

• Benny Carter Audio

Duke Ellington

• Edward "Duke" Ellington (1899-1974) (Requires Real Audio plug-in) Jazz Biographies: Duke Ellington
• Carrying the Color of Culture (Requires RealPlayer plug-in)

Billie Holiday

• Jazz Biographies: Billie Holiday

Paul RobesonBessie Smith

• Bessie Smith (1895-1937) (Requires Real Audio plug-in)
• Jazz Biographies: Bessie Smith

Ethel Waters

• Ethel Waters (1896-1977) (Requires Real Audio plug-in)
• Jazz Biographies: Ethel Waters