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