• Gwendolyn Bennett. 1924.

    Gwendolyn Bennett

    was a rising star of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, but she faded from the spotlight, constrained by financial and marital struggles, and harassment from the KKK and FBI…

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  • "Gwendolyn Bennett, Sara West, Louise Jefferson, Augusta Savage, Eleanor Roosevelt"

    This website

    documents Gwendolyn Bennett’s pivotal role in the Harlem Renaissance by presenting “scenes” from her life, art, and writings…

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  • Bennett in front of a still life oil painting, n.d.

    The scenic structure

    reflects the fragmentary nature of Bennett’s corpus, much of which is unfinished or lost, and gaps in her life story, parts of which were too painful for her to discuss…

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