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- - - - Charles Bradley, also known as Buddy Bradley, was a dancer. His first job was at a Kentucky club, in which his friend recommended to the owner. In 1933 buddy was fired and went to London to stage shows. He was the first black who had choreographed and staged and all white show.
      - James Van DerZee was an African-American photographer best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers. He was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
        
        Palmer Hayden- Enlisted in the army during World War I, where he enrolled in a drawing correspondence course.
        Hayden was in Paris during the final years of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, but he had lived in New York during the formative years of that pivotal period.
        One of Hayden's best-known early works is Fétiche et Fleurs of 1926, which clearly linked Hayden with the African-Cubist tradition of Harlem and Paris
      - Aaron Douglas (May 26, 1899 – February 3, 1979)
        Role: painter
        
        Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000)
        an African-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life. But not only was he a painter, storyteller, and interpreter; he also was an educator. All of his works reflected an experience he had faced or had overcomed, that's what made his work so popular and relatable with others. He focused on everday life of African Americans that were in his neighborhood which then became the focal point of his works . His works and style was known for being powerful, concise. Many expressed vibrancy and emotion for the people of his neighborhood as well as himself. he is most known for being the first African American to be represented in an New York gallery.
        
        Josephine Baker lived from 1906 –1975, she was a entertainer and an activist. Her career was primarily in Europe. She had devoted a lot of her life to fighting racism. Josephine competed with Gloria Swanson and Mary Pickford as the most photographed woman in the world, and by 1927, she earned more than any entertainer in Europe. She served France during World War two by entertaining the troops, she also hid secret messages written on her music sheets for the troops and she was a sub-lieutenant in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. She was awarded the Medal of the Resistance with Rosette and named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government for hard work and dedication.
    - - Aaron Douglas was a painter, illustrator, and visual arts educator
    - - Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998) born in Boston in 1905 to Thomas Vreeland Jones and Carolyn Jones. She trained at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She had her first solo expedition as a painter at age 17. She began her career when racial and gender discrimination was popular in American culture. Her paintings were Haitian, oil and watercolor, inspired and her most popular works. She produced works that she felt echoed her pride for African roots and American ancestry. She felt her greatest gift was "proof of the talent of black artists" and she strived to break free from the titles of "black artist" or "female artist".
    - - Lenardo de Vinci was an Italian artist
  - - - A renowned, Harlem-based photographer known for his posed, storied picture.
- - - - Jessie Redmon Fauset was an African-American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her literary work helped sculpt African-American literature in the 1920s as she focused on portraying a true image of African-American life and history.
  - - - Aaron Douglass - He moved to Harlem in 1925. He later became involved in the Renaissance and started creating illustrations for the two of the most important magazines associated with Harlem renaissance.These two magazines were Crisis and Opportunity. Douglass showed through the realities of the black struggle for political and creative freedom. He played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance and is considered one of the greatest visual artist of the movement.
- - - - Waller made his recording debut in 1922 for Okeh Records with the solo efforts "Muscle Shoals Blues" and "Binningham Blues." Shortly afterward, he released "Squeeze Me," an important early work that established his bona fides as a songwriter.
      - Arna Bontemps ( October 13, 1902 - June 4, 1973) an American poet, novelist and librarian, and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance.
    - - Langston Hughes: 1902 – May 22, 1967.. one of the earliest innovators of jazz poetry. He is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York City.
  - - - Considered one of the best jazz vocalists of all time, Holiday had a thriving career as a jazz singer for many years before she lost her battle with substance abuse. Her autobiography was made into the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues. In 2000, Billie Holiday was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
        Billie Holiday. Jazz singer Billie Holiday struggled with heroin and alcohol abuse for much of her career. She was arrested in 1947 for drug possession and served a year in prison. In 1959 she was diagnosed with cirrhosis of the liver.
  - - - He was born as Luther Robinson, he used physical force to compel his brother "Bill" to switch names with him. As a young man he earned the nickname "Bojangles" for his contentious tendencies. At age five he started dancing for money at beer gardens. In 1886 at age 9 he joined Mayme Remington's tour group. In 1908 Robinson met Marty Forkins who then became his manager. Robinson took a break from his dancing career to fight as a rifleman in World War 1, he was a drum major that led the regiment band up Fifth Avenue upon the regiments return from Europe. In 1928, he starred on broadway in a hugely successful musical revue "Blackbirds of 1928" this was performed in front of a white audience. He starred in 14 Hollywood motion pictures and many of them being musicals.
  - - - Duke Elington was a composer of jazz musician and his contributions to jazz music is considered phenomenal. He moved to Harlem in the mid-1920s and became one of the early innovators of orchestral jazz. His orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death, is a famous orchestral unit in the history of jazz. Often collaborating with others, Ellington wrote more than one thousand compositions. Considered by many as the greatest jazz composer and bandleader, Ellington was awarded the highest civilian award in US, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1969.
  - - - After moving to Harlem in 1925, Aaron Douglass became involved in the Renaissance and started creating illustrations for the two important magazines associated with the movement, The Crisis and Opportunity. In his canvases and murals he moved away from traditional landscape painting and developed his own modernist style of geometrical figurative representation in dealing with “Negro” subject matter. Douglass depicted the realities of the black struggle for political and creative freedom. He played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance and is considered the signature visual artist of the movement.
        
        Zora Neale Hurston arrived in New York City in 1925 when the Harlem Renaissance was at its peak and she soon became a prominent figure of the movement. Her writings revealed the truth of the black Southern experience as being a native of the rural South she was intimate with black folklore. Hurston was the most prominent female writer of the Harlem Renaissance and her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is considered among the most influential works of not only the Renaissance but also of African American and women’s literature.
- - - - Marcus Garvey: born in Jamaica became a leader in the black nationalist movement.He found the Negro World Newspaper. He wanted to create modern societies. His movement was the first black attempt to join urban goals.
        
        Claude McKay - Claude McKay was a famous poet during the Harlem Renaissance. ... In addition to giving a voice to black immigrants, McKay was one of the first African-American poets of the Harlem Renaissance. As such, he influenced later poets, including Langston Hughes.
  - - - Baker worked for the Red Cross during the occupation of France. As a member of the Free French forces she also entertained troops in both Africa and the Middle East.
      - Langston Hughes ) was a social activist in addition to being a poet.