The Harlem Renaissance Matrix



The Harlem Renaissance Thematic Collection (last updated July 2012)

| | | | |Literature |The Arts |History |Bio |Harlem | |

| | | | | | | |graphy |Culture & | |

| | |Type |Level | | | | |daily life | |

|Author |Title | | | | | | | |Notes |

| | | | | | | | | | |

|Angelou, Maya |Now Sheba Sings the Song |Pic |med |√ | |√ | | |sketches of african-amer. women |

| | |Poetry | | | | | | | |

|Collier, Bryan |Uptown |pic., |easy | | | | | |tour of Harlem; collage illustrations |

| | |nonfic | | | | | | | |

|Duggleby, John |Story Painter: The Life of |Pic, |med | |painter | |√ | |includes Lawrence's painting |

| |Jacob Lawrence |bio | | | | | | | |

|Hill, Laban Carrick |Harlem Stomp! |non fic |diff |√ |√ |√ | |√ |cultural history of Harlem Renaissance |

|Hughes, Langston |The Book of Rhythms |Pic, |easy |√ |music | | |√ | |

| | |non fic | | | | | | | |

|Katz, William |Black Legacy |non fic |med | | |√ |√ | |400 years of African Americans who have |

| | | | | | | | | |impacted N.Y. City |

|Lyons, Mary |Sorrow's Kitchen: The Life and|non fic |med | | | |√ | | |

| |Folklore of Zora Neale Hurston| | | | | | | | |

|Lyons, Mary |Starting Home: The Story of |bio |med | |painter |√ |√ | | |

| |Pippin, Painter | | | | | | | | |

|Marsalis, Wynton |Jazz ABZ |poetry |diff | |music | |√ | |short poems about famous jazz musicians |

|Meltzer, Milton |Lanston Hughes |bio |diff |poet | | |√ | | |

|Michelson , Richard |Happy Feet |pic |easy | |Savoy Ballroom | | |√ |fictional account of the opening night of the|

| | | | | | | | | |Savoy Ballroom |

|Monceaux, Morgan |Jazz: My Music, |Pic | | |musicians | |√ | |biographies of famous musicians; ALA notable |

| |My People |bio | | | | | | | |

|Myers, Walter Dean |Here in Harlem |poetry |diff |poem | | | |√ |Illustrated poem celebrating people, sounds, |

| | | | | | | | | |sights of Harlem |

|Osofsky, Audrey |Free To Dream: the Making of a|bio |med |poet | | |√ | |poet Langston Hughes |

| |Poet: Langston Hughes | | | | | | | | |

|Pinkney, Andrea Davis |Duke Ellington |pic |easy | |musician | |√ | |Am. Composer, Coretta Scott King award, |

| | |bio | | | | | | |Caldecott honor |

|Porter, A. P |Jump at de Sun |bio |med |author | | |√ | |bio of Zora Neal Hurston; ALA Notable for |

| | | | | | | | | |Reluctant Readers |

|Shange, Ntozake |ellington was not a street |Pic |med | |musician | |√ | |illus. based on Shange's poem "Mood Indigo" |

| | |poetry | | | | | | | |

|Taylor, Debbie |Sweet Music in Harlem |pic |easy | |Jazz musicians |√ | | |inspired by an actual photo taken of 57 jazz |

| | | | | | | | | |musicians |

|Walker, Alice |Lanston Hughes: American Poet |Pic |easy |poet | | |√ | | |

| | |bio | | | | | | | |

|Wright, Richard |Rite of Passage |fic |diff | | |√ | |√ |depicts the brutal conditions faced by Af Am |

| | | | | | | | | |men in 1940's Harlem |

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