Harlem Renaissance Great Reads for young readers featuring Jacob Lawrence and Langston Hughes

While searching the database and shelves for our library display for Black History Month, I came across some great books about or by Harlem Renaissance writers and artists.

One is called The Great Migration : An American Story with paintings by the very famous Harlem Renaissance artist Jacob Lawrence.  His paintings chronicle the historic and heroic journey of blacks from the rural South to the North around WWI in search of work in factories.  His 60 paintings series is held between two collections at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Phillips collection in Washington DC.  This books pulls them together with a narrative telling a history of the Great Migration.  It is a great way to also share the work of this renown artist.

  

I also found Gwen Everett's book John Brown, One Man Against Slavery with paintings by Jacob Lawrence.




Also found some great picture books about Harlem Renaissance writer and poet Langston Hughes.  One is Langston's Train Ride by Robert Burleigh with illustrations by Leonard Jenkins.  Another is Coming Home: from the Life of Langston Hughes by Floyd Cooper.