Huggins, Nathan Irvin

An analysis of the black American cultural renaissance of the 1920s. Covers political figures, painters and sculptors, jazzmen and musical comedy.

Includes more than 120 selections from the political writings, literature, and art of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, focusing on the youthfulness and exuberance of the period that symbolized the shaking off of slavery from the minds, spirits, and characters of African-Americans.

Examines the experience of slavery suffered by blacks in the United States from 1619 to the post-Civil War Reconstruction period.

A biography of the escaped slave who became a renowned writer, orator, abolitionist, and diplomat.