The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural movement of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered in Harlem, New York City, spann
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was a historian, writer, curator, and archivist regarded as an important intellectual figure in the Harlem Renaissance. In 1926, the New York Public Library purchased his collection of 4,600 books, pamphlets, art, and manuscripts on Black culture and held them at the 135th Street Branch Library, now the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie is emblematic of the mixture of high-class society, popular art, and virtuosity of jazz.