In the 1920s, an amazing group of African-American musicians, artists, poets, novelists, actors, and public figures came together in New York's Harlem. Their creativity expressed their cultural pride and caused all America to take note. This book presents biographies of six African Americans prominent in the arts and business worlds during the period known as the Harlem Renaissance: Bessie Smith, James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, A'lelia Walker, Augusta Fells Savage, and Arturo A. Schomburg.