Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Zora Neale Hurston
This site provides information and activities focused around Zora Neale Hurston's life and work. Check out this site featuring links to several sites focused on Hurston's work.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Toni Morrison
For teaching the work of Toni Morrison, this site provides lesson plans, activities, and other resources for Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Morrison's other fiction.
New York Times
New York Times: Helene Johnson, Poet of Harlem, 89, Dies
[Free Registration/Login Required] An obituary for Helene Johnson, a famous Harlem Renaissance poet. Includes quotations from some of her poems.
Library of Congress
Loc: Web Guides: A Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials
Presents the Library's resources as well as links to external web sites on the Harlem Renaissance, and a bibliography.
BBC
Bb Ci Audio Interviews: Alice Walker
The BBC provides audio clips from two different radio interviews with Alice Walker. Additional content includes a brief biography and a list of key works.
New York Public Library
In Motion Magazine: In Praise of Toni Cade Bambara
A short essay and poem written in Bambara's honor after her death.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Claude Mc Kay
A biography and analysis of the life of the famous author, as well as literary criticism as well as online poems, letters and a bibliography. Includes many quotes and his poetry.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Southern Road and the "New Negro Renaissance"
Great research site! Gives passages from many of the works of the authors of this era. Well-written overview.
Other
African Postcolonial Literature in English: Achebe's Fiction
A short synopsis on Achebe's use of language to combat politics in Africa. With a quote from his essay "The Novelist as Teacher."
Other
Zora Neale Hurston: Women in History
The African American novelist Zora Neale Hurston is described with facts, accomplishments, and links to web sites for further research.
Penguin Publishing
Penguin Random House: Anthony Burns: The Defeat & Triumph of a Fugitive Slave
Discussion ideas and interdisicplinary connections are the most useful parts of this teachers' guide for Virigina Hamilton's biography of escaped slave, Anthony Burns. It includes a brief summary of the book and information about the...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: "Letter From Spain"
This site from Modern American Poetry provides a review of the famous poem by Langston Hughes. The information that is provided is somewhat brief, but factual, and worth checking out.