Extraordinary People of the Harlem Renaissance
- ISBN-10
- 0516271709
- ISBN-13
- 9780516271705
- Category
- African American artists
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-03
- Publisher
- Childrens Press
- Authors
- P. Stephen Hardy, Sheila Jackson Hardy
Description
Looks at the many artists, photographers, choreographers, musicians, composers, poets, writers, and other creative people who made Harlem such an amazing place in the 1920s and 1930s.
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