Harlem Renaissance Museum Artifact Project

BioWallace Henry Thurman was born in Salt Lake City on 16 August 1902 to Beulah and Oscar Thurman. He was raised by his mother and maternal grandmother and wrote his first novel at ag 10. As a child, Thurman often read the works of Shakespeare and Sigmund Freud. He attended the University of Southern California and discovered his passion for writing and literature. Thurman married once, but it soon failed and he turned to writing novels. His works include: The Blacker the Berry, Infants of the Spring, and The Interne. ImpactHe planned and published the quarterly magazine, Fire!, to provide opportunities for talented black writers. He is regarded as a minor figure in the Harlem Renaissance, but he was influential upon the younger and more successful writers of the time.

Jelly Roll Morton (musician) 1890-1941

BioMeta Fuller was born in Philadelphia on June 9, 1877. She was one of America's first female studio sculptors of African descent. Fuller was born into a prominent black family and attended the J. Liberty Tadd's art school and Pennsylvania Museum School of the Industrial Arts where she discovered her talent for sculpting. From there, she studied in Paris for three years and became the protege of Auguste Rodin, a conceptual realist. ImpactShe effectively expressed the experiences of blacks in America through her artwork

Works Cited

http://www.danforthmuseum.org/meta_warrick_fuller.htmlhttp://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI8701179/Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 9: Wallace Thurman " PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. WWW URL: http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/thurman.html http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jelly-roll-morton-mn0000317290/biographyhttp://www.redhotjazz.com/jellyroll.html

The Harlem Renaissance Artifact Project

"From the Arts to Civil Rights"

Untitled (bust), n.d., unfired bisque clay, Collection Danforth Art

Gabrielle YoungAPUSH 4A-B

BioBorn in New Orleans on October 20, 1890. As a teenager Jelly Roll Morton worked in the whorehouses of Storyville as a piano player. Around 1904, he began wandering around the South, working as a gambler, pool player, vaudeville comedian, a pimp, and a pianist. He played on the West Coast from 1917 to 1922 and then moved to Chicago and where reached his peak. He formed the band, Red Hot Peppers. The Great Depression hit Jelly Roll hard and audiences no longer preferred records like his, as they were considered old-fashioned. He died in 1941, and his music became popular again as the New Orleans jazz revivalist movement began and, ironically, if he had lived few more years, he may have reached his peak again.ImpactJelly Roll Morton was the first great composer and piano player of Jazz.

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (artist) 1877-1968

Wallace Thurman (writer) 1902-1934

Hesitation Blues- Jelly Roll Morton

Foreword of Fire!"FIRE . . . flaming, burning, searing, and penetrating far beneath the superficial items of the flesh to boil the sluggish blood.FIRE . . . a cry of conquest in the night, warning those who sleep and revitalizing those who linger in the quiet places dozing..."