This well-produced volume offers a lively overview of the Harlem Renaissance - the early decades of the 20th Century when Harlem became a cultural focus and meeting point for black artists, painters, intellectuals, writers, musicians and political activists. It introduces key figures such as W.E.B.Dubois, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, and reproduces a wealth of paintings, archive photographs, poems and historical documents, in celebration of this unique period.