Excerpted from Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin by James CampbellThe main activity of the Harlem Renaissance took place in the years immediately before and after James Baldwin's birth. In 1924 Alain Locke was preparing an anthology to be published under the title The New Neg
In 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, a pioneering black intellectual and the son of former slaves, recognizing “the dearth of information on the accomplishments of blacks . . . founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, now called the Association for the Study of African American Li