Course Schedule – Spring 2024 / History and Philosophy / HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Coordinators: Richard Byrd, Stuart Parker

The Harlem Renaissance was a period of great change in America, and in the African-American community in particular.

The presentations will show the impact that the Harlem Renaissance had on the artistic, social, and political terrain. The presentations will highlight such figures as Langston Hughes, Zora Neal Hurston, Claude Mckay, Augusta Savage, Duke Ellington, Lois Mail Jones, Romare Bearden, Alain Locke, Jean Toomer, Jessie Fauset, Josephine Baker, and activists such as Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Dubois, A. Phillip Randolph, Hallie Quinn Brown, and Mary McCloud Bethune.

B WEEK / TUESDAY / 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

HARLEM RENAISSANCE
DatePresenterTitle
Feb 13Bob GottfriedPaul Robeson
Feb 27Richard ByrdHubert H. Harrison
Mar 12Ann GoerdtAaron Douglass
Mar 26Richard ByrdSimilarities Between 1920s Harlem Renaissance and 1960s Black Arts Movement
Apr 09Stuart ParkerLouis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
Apr 30Bob GottfriedLangston Hughes (Zoom Only)
May 14Ellen WittenbergPoetry of the Harlem Renaissance

 


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