Harlem Renaissance

Harlem Renaissance Poets

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The following are links to purchased databases (provide citations for you):

Ebsco's MegaFILE Database- combination periodicals & books - Be sure to select "FULL TEXT" box:

http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=keh%20

Encyclopedia of World Biography Database (Gale Virtual Reference Library database):

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/sain46794

Gale Group Discovering Collection Database - Once you have an article, look on left side of screen for narrower topics. Citation is near bottom of screen: “Source Citation":

http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/DC;jsessionid=86B8BD3AA0576E40679BB6F66BBDC15F?locID=mnkspps

Gale Virtual Reference Library Database - A collection of reference e-books. Citation is near bottom of screen: “Source Citation":

http://find.galegroup.com/gvrl/start.do?prodId=GVRL&userGroupName=stpaulps

Salem Press’ History Database: Ancient World through Twentieth Century, Notorious Lives, Milestone Documents and Decades 1950s – 1980s. Biographies section:

http://history.salempress.com/action/browseIndexes?indexType=personages

The following websites are reliable but are not purchased databases (you need to figure out the citation yourself):

African American Registry – info about many African Americans, including poets:

http://www.aaregistry.org

Authors – African American Literature – Literary History:

http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/AfricanAm.htm

Harlem Renaissance: http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/HarlemRen.htm

Authors – Afropoets.net:

http://afropoets.net

Authors – American – PAL: Perspectives in American Literature:

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/alpha.HTML

Authors – “Harlem Renaissance Poets and Musicians” by author Samuel Black:

http://www.timbooktu.com/spence/harlem.htm

Biographies – PBS:

http://www.pbs.org/history/history_biographies.html

Biography – Alice Dunbar-Nelson – University of Minnesota:

http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/nelson_alice_dunbar.html

answers.com: http://www.answers.com/topic/alice-ruth-moore-dunbar-nelson

answers.com: http://www.answers.com/angelina%20weld%20grimke

Biography – Anne Bannister Spencer – Richard Bland College website:

http://www.rbc.edu/library/SpecialCollections/Women_history_resources/vfwposter2003_spencer.pdf

Biography – Arna Bontemps – American Poems:

http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/bontemps

answers.com: http://www.answers.com/topic/arna-bontemps

Biography – Claude McKay – answers.com:

http://www.answers.com/topic/claude-mckay

Biography and commentary on Claude McKay & his poetry – University of Illinois website:

http://news.illinois.edu/NEWS/04/0616mckay.html

Biography – Countee Cullen – Modern American Poetry:

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/cullen/cullen.htm

answers.com: http://www.answers.com/topic/countee-cullen

Biography – Effie Lee Newsome - answers.com: http://www.answers.com/effie%20lee%20newsome

Biography – Gwendolyn Bennett – University of Minnesota:

http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/bennettGwendolyn.php

Pennsylvania Center for the Book: http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Bennett__Gwendolyn.html

Biography – Helene Johnson – University of Minnesota:

http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/johnsonHelene.php

answers.com: http://www.answers.com/helene%20johnson

Biography and commentary on Helene Johnson & her poetry – bnet.com:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2838/is_2_36/ai_89872258

Biography – James Weldon Johnson – SE Oklahoma State University:

http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/johnson/johnson1.html

answers.com: http://www.answers.com/topic/james-weldon-johnson

Biography – Jean Toomer – University at Buffalo:

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/toomer/toomerbio.html

answers.com: http://www.answers.com/jean%20toomer

Biography – Jessie Redmon Fauset – University of Minnesota:

http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/fausetJessie.php

Pennsylvania Center for the Book:

http://www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu/palitmap/bios/Fauset__Jessie_Redmon.html

Biography – Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr. – Idaho Falls Public Library:

http://www.lfpl.org/western/htms/cotter.htm

answers.com: http://www.answers.com/topic/joseph-seamon-cotter-jr

Biography - Langston Hughes – America’s Library:

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/hughes/aa_hughes_subj.html

Howard University’s website:

http://www.howard.edu/library/Reference/Guides/Hughes

Biography – Lewis Grandison Alexander – Black Renaissance in Washington:

http://029c28c.netsolhost.com/blkren/bios/alexanderlg.html

Biography – Richard Bruce Nugent – Black Renaissance in Washington:

http://029c28c.netsolhost.com/blkren/bios/nugentrb.html

answers.com: http://www.answers.com/topic/richard-bruce-nugent

Biography – Sterling Brown – Fu Jen Catholic University:

http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/iacd_99S/blues/Literary/Brown

answers.com: http://www.answers.com/topic/sterling-allen-brown

Biography – Waring Cuney – Black Renaissance in Washington:

http://029c28c.netsolhost.com/blkren/bios/cuneyww.html

answers.com: http://www.answers.com/topic/william-waring-cuney

Biography – Poets of the Harlem Renaissance – about.com:

http://americanhistory.about.com/sitesearch.htm?terms=harlem%20renaissance%20poets&SUName=americanhistory&TopNode=99

Biography.com:

http://www.biography.com/search

Harlem Renaissance – Buffalo University’s website:

http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~sww/circle/harlem-ren-sites.html

Harlem Renaissance – What Was the Harlem Renaissance? – short video:

http://www.teachersdomain.org/asset/vtl07_vid_whatharlem

Harlem Renaissance – Librarians’ Internet Index:

http://lii.org/pub/htdocs/search?search=harlem%20renaissance;action=show;searchtype=keywords

Poetry – Afropoets.net:

http://afropoets.net

Poetry - Famous Poets and Poems:

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/country/America/American_poets.html

Poetry - Modern American Poetry:

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets.htm

Poetry - PoemHunter.com:

http://www.poemhunter.com (First choose a poet’s name, poem name, or poem text. Then type name or word in search bar.)

Poetry - Poet Seers:

http://www.poetseers.org

Poetry - Poets’ Corner:

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems

Poetry – Poets of the Harlem Renaissance – University of Denver website:

http://ctl.du.edu/spirituals/Literature/harlem.cfm

Poetry - Poets.org:

http://www.poets.org/poets/index.cfm (Type in poet’s last name in search bar on LEFT SIDE where it says “Poet.”)

Primary sources – American Memory – Library of Congress:

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/index.html

Primary sources – National Museum of American History:

http://americanhistory.si.edu

Women – American Women Through Time:

http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-timeline.html

Wikipedia.com:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (Can have good info, but be cautious

since anyone can edit Wikipedia’s entries. NOTE: In left column see “Cite this article” for citation.)

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MLA Citation Guideline Sheets:

http://spps.schoolwires.net/Page/4105