“Sandra L. West and Aberjhani have compiled an encyclopedia that makes an important contribution to our need to know more about one of modern America’s truly significant artistic and cultural movements. It helps us to acknowledge the complexity of African American life at a time when the nation’s culture was taking on a recognizable shape, when race was becoming less of a crushing burden and more of a challenge to progressive people and their ideals, and when cities and their inhabitants symbolized the end of the past and the seductiveness of the new.” African AmericansAuthorsRace RelationsUs HistoryDemographicsBlack History MonthAfrican American HistoryHistoriansHarlem RenaissanceGreat MigrationAberjhaniEncyclopediasHarlem Renaissance HistoriansCultural MovementsBooks On The Harlem RenaissanceClement Alexander PriceNewark HistorianSandra L West Book:Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance Source: Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance