What was the Harlem Renaissance and when did it begin?By Cary D. Wintz – February 2015 This seemingly simple question reveals the complexities of the movement we know varyingly as the New Negro Renaissance, the New Negro Movement, the Negro Renaissance, the Jazz Age, or the Harlem Renaissance. To answer the question it is necessary
First organized in 1916 as the 15th New York National Guard Infantry Regiment and manned by black enlisted soldiers with both black and white officers, the U.S. Army’s 369th Infantry Regiment, popularly known as the “Harlem Hellfighters,” was the best known African American unit of World War I. Federalized in 1917, it prepared for service in
Source: Public Radio Tulsa, Rich Fisher. (This show first aired back in April.) Our guest is Bruce D. Haynes, a professor in the Department of Sociology at UC-Davis. He’s the co-author of a new memoir, “Down the Up Staircase: Three Generations of a Harlem Family,” which interestingly blends personal narrative, African-American social history, and the