This directory includes over 500 African American performers and theater people who have made a significant contribution to the American stage from the early 19

Entries provide succinct biographical and theatrical information gathered from a variety of sources including library theater and drama collections, dissertatio

The Harlem Renaissance is the best known and most widely studied cultural movement in African American history. Now, in Harlem Renaissance Lives, esteemed schol

From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renais

An interdisciplinary look at the Harlem Renaissance, it includes essays on the principal participants, those who defined the political, intellectual and cultura