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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: The Promised Land?

For Students 9th - 10th
A short story and a painting illustrating African American perceptions of Northern cities. Rudolph Fisher's short story "The City of Refuge" and William H. Johnson's painting Moon over Harlem offer insight into life within the black...
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Other

Other Voices: The Psychology of Uncertainty: Rudolph Fisher's "The Conjure Man D

For Students 9th - 10th
An analysis by Adrienne Gosselin taken from an online Journal of Rudolph Fisher's "The Conjure-Man Dies." With endnotes and bibliographical references.
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Handout
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: Rudolph Fisher

For Students 9th - 10th
This entry from Encyclopedia Britannica features Rudolph Fisher, an American short-story writer and novelist associated with the Harlem Renaissance whose fiction realistically depicted black urban life in the North, primarily Harlem.