Opportunity, published by the National Urban League. Responding to the heady intellectual atmosphere of the time and place, writers and artists, many of whom lived in Harlem, began to produce a wide variety of fine and highly original works dealing with African-American life. These works attracted many black readers. New to the wider culture, they also attracted commercial publishers and a large white readership. Writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance include Arna Bontemps, Langston Hughes , Claude McKay , Countee Cullen , James Weldon Johnson , Zora Neale Hurston , and Jean Toomer .
Visual artists connected with the movement are less generally known.
Photographers include James Van Der Zee and Roy De Carava. The Harlem Renaissance faded with the onset of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.