Children's Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
Smith, Katharine Capshaw
The Harlem Renaissance, the period associated with the flowering of the arts in Harlem, inaugurated a tradition of African American children`s literature, for the movement`s central writers made youth both their subject and audience. W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Langston Hughes, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and other Harlem Renaissance figures took an impassioned interest in the literary models offered to children, believing that the "New Negro"...
