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Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
Harlem Renaissance poet, painter, theater designer, and sculptor
Dorothy West
Harlem Renaissance novelist
Ethel Ray Nance
Ethel Ray Nance was an African American activist and writer. During the 1920s, she broke various racial and gender barriers in Minnesota, participated in the Harlem Renaissance movement, worked as a secretary for the National Urban League, and contributed to Opportunity magazine.
Jessie Redmon Fauset
As the literary editor of The Crisis (1919–1926) she introduced many Harlem Renaissance writers, including Langston Hughes and Jean Toomer, to the public, in addition to being a writer herself.
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Harlem Renaissance poet, critic, journalist, and activist
Augusta Savage
Key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, an influential sculptor and educator
Hallie Quinn Brown
African American educator, writer, and women’s rights activist, renowned for her contributions to education and the fight for racial and gender equality.
Lois Mailou Jones
Harlem Renaissance artist and educator
Laura Wheeler Waring
With Edmonia Lewis, Meta Vaux Warrick, and Augusta Savage, Waring is one of the foremost Black American female artists of the first half of the twentieth century.