The power of pride
Subtitle: stylemakers and rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance
By: Carole Marks and Diana Edkins.
Contributors: Edkins, Diana.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
Subjects: African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Sources.; African American arts -- 20th century -- Sources.; African American intellectuals -- Biography.; African American artists -- Biography.; African American authors -- Biography.; Harlem Renaissance -- Sources.; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- Sources.; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.; Biography.
Description: "The Harlem Renaissance was an electrifying period during which huge numbers of African Americans threw off the shackles of discrimination, exploitation, and poverty is the South and moved north. The Power of Pride is a visually spirited and intimate book full of photographs, letters, playbills, and drawings that capture the gaiety and excitement of the time.

Moving from the brownstones of Striver's Row in Harlem to the Negro Appreciation salons in Paris, the book focuses an seventeen Renalssance figures who exemplify the themes of race, fortitude, talent, and style, and whose strength of will and ability created a model for all those with dreams and aspirations emerging in the African-American community."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.