I appreciate this enormously!

at the CT and NY Public libraries. The librarians are trained to assist you in searches, and you can search newspaper, and historical databases for free.

If you have something specific you are looking for, send me a PM and I'll try to find it for you. I am a librarian. Even though many libraries are still closed to the public, you will find much literature has been digitized, so it is remotely searchable.

Here are the links:

https://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/hg/home

https://www.nypl.org/research

Here's an interesting article about him. https://www.theroot.com/meet-the-father-of-the-harlem-renaissance-1790895368

You may also want to read up on W.E.B. DuBois. Athough he wasn't a Harlem Renaissance artist, his contemporaraneously work analyzed and explained and shaped the times and issues the artists were observing and expressing like no other.

Another excellent book to read is "Poetry of the Negro," edited by Arna Bontemps. It's not a narrative but a compilation of the work of black poets and contains the work of numerous Renaissance poets. Reading them is like listening to music.

I hope this is helpful.

OK. I am going to adjust my book project timeline until I have read the material I have collected on just this thread alone. I'll be back if I have more questions.

Thanks for helping. I'll definitely research the DuBois book. It sounds like it is foundational to my study. So I start again.

He was brilliant and prescient.

Good luck!

primary, secondary or tertiary sources?

So my guess would be primary and secondary. I have a few primary sources on my list and have ordered a couple from Amazon. I have found lots of secondary sources on line and am printing them out (yeah, I'm old and not so good at doing online research).

It's interesting: I went back for a Masters in Liberal Studies when I was in my 60s and absolutely loved it. My class was all white. I never had one course that delved into literature about and from the Black community of great writers. What a goddam shame and waste. I hope that course of study has been seriously looked at, because it was sorely lacking when I was doing it.