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 | ||
Date | Presenter | Title |
Feb 13 | Bob Gottfried | Paul Robeson |
Feb 27 | Richard Byrd | Hubert H. Harrison |
Mar 12 | Ann Goerdt | Aaron Douglass |
Mar 26 | Richard Byrd | Similarities Between 1920s Harlem Renaissance and 1960s Black Arts Movement |
Apr 09 | Stuart Parker | Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington |
Apr 30 | Bob Gottfried | Langston Hughes (Zoom Only) |
May 14 | Ellen Wittenberg | Poetry of the Harlem Renaissance |
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