Curated teaching resource
A New African American Identity: The Harlem Renaissance (NMAAHC, Smithsonian)
By National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Collection
- U.S. Primary Sources
- Subject
- History
- Grades
- Grades 7-12
- Format
- Primary Source
- Curriculum
- Cross-curricular
- Publisher or host
- si.edu
Why this resource is included
Authoritative overview. Cites Alain Locke Enter the New Negro, Survey Graphic 6 (March 1925) p. 634, formulating the Harlem Renaissance as a spiritual Coming of Age. Useful as canonical period self-description for the fictional 1958 Harlem. Free.