Friday, July 5, 2024

Race/Related: 100 years of the Harlem Renaissance, in photos

We've gathered dozens of images showing the people and the art that they created.
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July 5, 2024

The trumpet player Cootie Williams performed with Duke Ellington's band at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem in the 1930s. Getty/Bettmann, via Bettmann Archive

A visual history of the Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance changed the world. We've gathered dozens of images, many that we've never published, showing the people and the art that they created.

Travel through early 20th-century Harlem in this visual history: a curated collection of photographs, videos, paintings and books that gave the Jazz Age its swing.

A black and white photograph of a woman jumping in mid-air doing the Lindy Hop as other people dance around her.

Archive Photos/Getty Images

See the photos here

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