Harlem on My Mind: Our Faces, Our Places

Celebrating The Harlem Renaissance People and Places, 1918 - 1937

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Welcome to The Harlem Renaissance Research Site, your information gateway for research, teaching, and learning. Feel free to contact me for your research and classroom needs.

                                                         Leta Hendricks

The Gatekeepers

Regina Anderson Andrews

Regina Anderson Andrews

May 21, 1901 – February 5, 1993

African American Librarian, Playwright and Patron of the Arts

Vivian G. Harsh

Vivian G. Harsh

May 27, 1890 – August 17, 1960

African American Librarian, Bibliographer, and Scholar

Dorothy Porter Wesley

Dorothy Porter Wesley

May 25, 1905 – December 17, 1995

African American Librarian, Bibliographer, and Scholar

Mollie Huston Lee

Mollie Huston Lee

January 18, 1907 – January 26, 1982 

African American Librarian and Community Leader

Arna Bontemps

Arna Bontemps

October 13, 1902 – June 4, 1973

African American Librarian, Educator, Novelist, and Poet

Nella Larsen

Nella Larsen

April 13, 1891 – March 30, 1964

African American Librarian, Author, Novelist, and Nurse

Reverend Thomas Fountain Blue and Assistants

Reverend Thomas Fountain Blue

March 6, 1866 — November 10, 1935

African American Trailblazing Librarian, Minister, Educator, and Community Leader

Catherine Allen Latimer and Arthur Alfonso Schomburg

Catherine Allen Latimer

1896 – September 13, 1948

African American Librarian, Bibliophile, and Bibliographer

African American and African Studies Librarian and Comparative Studies Librarian

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