Harlem Renaissance, Hughes, Hurston, Miller, Cullen, Misc Welles + "Kane"
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| ~Countee Cullen |
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| Birth name of Countee cullen | Countee LeRoy Porter
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| Birthdate of Countee Cullen | May 30, 1903
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| Birthplace of countee Cullen | NYC or Louisville or Baltimore
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| Who raised Countee Cullen? Why? | Raised by grandma because mom abandoned her
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| Where and when did Countee Cullen move to as a child? | Harlem in 1912
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| Who adopted Countee Cullen? When? | Rev. Frederick Cullen in 1918. Rev. Cullen was an activist for Afr. Amer. rights
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| Counte Cullen Education | Dewitt Clinton High (mainly white student body) + NYU (1921-25) + Masters @ Harvard (1926)
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| Countee Cullen first work? | 1921 "I Have a Rendezvous with Life"
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| Countee Cullen first spouse | Nina Yolanda DuBois in 1929 (daughter of W.E.B. DuBois) + Divorce 1930
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| Countee Cullen second spouse | Ida Robinson 1940
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| Countee Cullen death | 1946 of high blood pressure
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| Countee Cullen lit style | Models Keets with traditional writing style; hella religion, romantic ideals, advocate of racial equality
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| Countee Cullen notable works | 1925: "Color" + 1927: "Copper Sun" + 1929: "Black Christ"
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| ~Arthur Miller |
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| Arthur Miller birthdate | October 17, 1915
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| Arthur Miller birthplace | NYC
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| Arthur Miller education | Abraham Lincoln HS (1932) + U of Michigan (1934, grad in 1938)
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| Arthur Miller Broadway attempts | "The Man who had all the Luck" first Bway and failed (1940 written, 1944 performed) + "All my Sons" (1947) + "Death of a Salesman" epic win (1949)
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| Arthur Miller wives | Mary Slattery (1940-1956) + Marilyn Monroe (1956-1961) + Inge Morath (1962-2002)
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| Arthur Miller death date | 2005
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| ~Langston Hughes |
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| Langston Hughes birth name | James Langston Hughes
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| Langston Hughes birth date | February 1, 1902
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| Langston Hughes birth place | Joplin, Missouri
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| Langston Hughes ancestry | Abolitionist family, great grandson of Charles Henry Langston, who's bro was John Mercer Langston, who was first Afr Amer to publ office in 1855
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| Langston Hughes parent trouble, who raised? | Parents divorced @ young age, father moved to mexico. raised by g-ma Mary Sampson Patterson Leary Langston until 13. @ 13, g-ma dies, Langston moves to Lincoln, Illinois to live with mom and stepdad. Begins writing poetry
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| Langston Hughes Education | Cntral High School (Wrote for Central High Monthly; Class Poet; wrote jazz poetry: "When Sue wears Red" ; teacher intro'd to Carl Sandberg, Walt Whitman; Jr. year: summer w/ dad in Toluca, Mexico. didn't go well) + Columbia Univ for 1 year w/ papa paying
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| Langston Hughes Education II | Lincoln Univ in Pennsylvania to finish school (1926; funded by Charlotte Osgood Mason)
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| Langston Hughes Misc | Write for "New Masses", a commie journal + Sailed to USSR in 1932 + "Chicago Defender" (1942) + Money hard until musical "Street Scene" (1947)
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| Langston Hughes Works | "Ngr Spks of Rvrs" (1921 in "The Crisis" + in Wry Bls vlm)+"The Weary Blues"(1925, 1st in Opprtnty mag...1926 vlm)+"Fine Clths 2 Jew" (1927, no $, but critics <3)+novel "Not Without Laughter" (under Mason)+"Montage of a Dream Deferred" (famous, 1951
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| ~Zora Neale Hurston |
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| Hurston birthdate | 1891
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| Hurston birthplace/growing up place | Born in Notasulga, Alabama; moved to Eatonville, Florida (all black town)
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| Hurston shit went down | 1902 Mom dies, dad remarries, Zora no have home, ergo, joins theatre troupe to survive while getting edu
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| Hurston Education | Public all life + Howard Univ (anthropology)
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| Hurston Education II | Moves 2 Harlem, secretary + Scholarship to Barnard College (studies under Franz Boas, grad in 1927 w/ fellowship for oral tradition, studies voodoo in Jamaica)
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| Hurston Later Life | dirt poor, returns to Florida, can't afford grave, dies in 1960
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| Hurston Works | "How it Feels to be Colored Me" (1928) + "Their Eyes Were Watching God" (1937)
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| Hurston Themes | Stresses individuality, doesn't uplift race b/c already believes it's great
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