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Headings: Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance
MOVEMENT ORIGIN
REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)
Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
Nella Larsen (1891-1964)
Alain Locke (1886-1954)
Claude McKay (1889-1948)
Jean Toomer (1894-1967)
REPRESENTATIVE WORKS
Cane
Color
God's Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse
MEDIA ADAPTATIONS
Home to Harlem
The New Negro: An Interpretation
Quicksand
Their Eyes Were Watching God
"Titee"
The Weary Blues
THEMES
Race and Passing
TOPICS FOR FURTHER STUDY
African Heritage
Conflicting Images of Blacks
STYLE
Use of Dialect and Colloquialisms
Use of Music
Urban and Rural Settings
MOVEMENT VARIATIONS
Visual Arts during the Harlem Renaissance
The Renaissance in Other American Cities
Music during the Harlem Renaissance
Black Aesthetic Movement
Post-Aesthetic Movement
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
The Great Migration
The New Negro
COMPARE & CONTRAST
Red Summer of 1919
Life in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s
CRITICAL OVERVIEW
CRITICISM
Susan Sanderson
WHAT DO I STUDY NEXT?
Granville Ganter
Margaret Perry
SOURCES
FURTHER READING
Harlem Renaissance
Bibliography
Harlem Renaissance
BIBLIOGRAPHY
HARLEM RENAISSANCE
The Queer Renaissance
Bibliography
Harlem Renaissance
Further Reading:
Harlem Renaissance

Content: He died on May 22, 1967, in New York City of congestive heart failure. Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
Zora Neale Hurston, the daughter of a preacher and a seamstress, was born January 7, 1891, in Eatonville, Florida. Hurston quit school at age thirteen to care for her brother's children but later attended a Baltimore high school, thanks to a generous patron. Her undergraduate and graduate studies in anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University influenced her novels, plays, and two published collections of African-American folklore. Hurston fought against a common belief that the poverty often associated with black American culture made it less valuable. She continually encouraged blacks, especially those of the educated middle class, to recognize their rural cultural heritage. Many criticized her writing as bawdy and her most famous work, the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, as simplistic and reactionary. Other readers, ultimately the majority, praised the book as offering positive self-affirmation for African Americans. Hurston also worked as a maid, a staff writer for Paramount Studios, a librarian at the Library of Congress, and a theater professor, and she received Guggenheim fellowships in 1936 and 1939. On January 28, 1960, she died in Fort Pierce, Florida.