dlemieux, 2006

In the early twentieth century, Harlem became the seat of the new black middle class of New York City. The period from about 1920 to 1934, called the Harlem Renaissance, represents a flourishing of African American literature and music. Zora Neale Hurston began a literary magazine in 1925 called Fire! with Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman before her Caribbean travels documented in Tell My Horse. 

Langston Hughes

• The Big Sea: An Autobiography
• The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Wallace Thurman

• Blacker the Berry. . .
• Infants of the Spring

Jazz

• The Fabulous Josephine Baker
• The Essential Duke Ellington
• Best Of Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
• Dizzy Gillespie - Greatest Hits