Title: The power of pride
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: African American artists, African American arts, African American authors, African American intellectuals, African Americans, Biography, Harlem Renaissance, Intellectual life, Sources, Kunstenaars, Intellectuelen, Negers, Emancipatie, History
Places: Harlem (New York, N.Y.), N.Y.) Harlem (New York, New York (N.Y.)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: E185.6 .M35 1999