Women of the Movement

Writers

·      Zora Neal Hurston 

·      Nella Larsen 

·      Angelina Weld Grimke 

·      Georgia Douglas Johnson

·      Gwendolyn Bennett

·      Alice Dunbar Nelson

·      Jesse Fauset

·      Marita Bonner

·      Eulalie Spence

·      Dorothy West

·      Helene Johnson

Visual Artists

·      Augusta Savage

·      Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller

·      Lois Mailou Jones

Musicians/ Composers

·      Billie Holiday

·      Lil Hardin Armstrong 

·      Bessie Smith

·      Mammie Smith (Blues)

·      Ivie Anderson

·      Ella Fitzgerald

·      Ma Rainey

·      Lucille Bogan a.k.a Bessie Jackson

·      Marian Anderson

·      The Dandridge Sisters

·      Victoria Spivey

 Lucille Bogan singing, "Drinking Blues"

Lil' Hardin Armstrong singing, "Harlem On A Saturday Night"

Entertainers

·      Josephine Baker 

·      Jackie “Moms” Mabley 

·      Ethel Waters

·      Florence Mills

·      Lena Horne

 Josephine Baker in Moulin Rouge (1940)

 

 Jackie "Mom's" Mabley in her Comedy Stand Up