Harlem Renaissance: The Black Poets

Series: Tell It Like It Was Series

Duration: 20

Year Published: 1972

Creator: WCAI-TV

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Portrays the emergence of black poets, essayists, and novelists in the 1920s and 30s through dramatic vignettes. Explains that these writers believed that "Black Is Beautiful" and that they wrote to please only themselves. Includes excerpts from the works of Countee Cullen, Waring Cuney, Georgia Douglass Johnson, Fenton Johnson, W.E.B. DuBois, and Langston Hughes., Captures the black experience in the 1920's and 1930's through the poetry of Georgia Douglas Johnson, Fenton Johnson, W E B DuBois, and Langston Hughes.

Complete Record: Portrays the emergence of black poets, essayists, and novelists in the 1920s and 30s through dramatic vignettes. Explains that these writers believed that "Black Is Beautiful" and that they wrote to please only themselves. Includes excerpts from the works of Countee Cullen, Waring Cuney, Georgia Douglass Johnson, Fenton Johnson, W.E.B. DuBois, and Langston Hughes., , Captures the black experience in the 1920's and 1930's through the poetry of Georgia Douglas Johnson, Fenton Johnson, W E B DuBois, and Langston Hughes. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.