The Harlem Renaissance
National Museum of African American History and Culture - A New African American Identity - The Harlem Renaissance.
National Gallery of Art Uncovering America - Great summary of the Harlem Renaissance and descriptions of some of the most influential artists of that period.
Arts and Letters of the Harlem Renaissance: Crash Course Black American History #26
Jacob Lawrence: The Great Migration - Series of paintings depicting the Great Migration, a major historical movement of Black Americans that was intertwined with the Harlem Renaissance.
Visual Arts
10 African- American Artists you should know [Black History Month] Art Lesson
Studio Museum in Harlem - Great collection that has made much of their work available digitally. Consider browsing by artist or theme.
Who was Aaron Douglas - One of the most accomplished and influential visual artists and is called the Father of African American Art.
NPR - Great radio piece and article on muralist Hale Woodruff.
Smithsonian Learning Lab - Black Arts Movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Use your arrow keys to progress through the resources.
Ted-Ed - The chaotic brilliance of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
National Museum of African American History and Culture - Digitized collection of 500+ pieces housed at the museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum - William H. Johnson's Fighters for Freedom: Decoding the Paintings. Click through the arrows to see each of the paintings in this series and explanations of who is featured.
Smithsonian American Art Museum - Curated collection of African American art in the museum’s collection.
Three Dimensional
Smithsonian American Art Museum - Great article on Augusta Savage, a prominent sculptor and figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Photography
National Gallery of Art - Great breakdown of the the way in which photography helped and supported the Civil Rights Movement. Check out some of their photography selections by clicking through the slides here.
National Gallery of Art: Gordon Parks - Prolific photographer who had some of the most iconic photography of the Tuskegee Airmen, the Civil Rights Movement, and beyond. Check out some of his collections by scrolling to the bottom of this page and selecting one to browse.
Film
Hattie McDaniel: First Black actress to be nominated to win a Oscar, winning the Academy Award.
Fashion
Dance
Writing
Maya Angelou: 20th Century Renaissance Woman | Black History in Two Minutes (or so)
Ted-Ed - How Phillis Wheatley captured the attention of the world
PBS Learning Media - A Black Writer in the South: Alice Walker
PBS Learning Media - Resurrecting Zora Neale Hurston