The Power of Pride; Stylemakers and RuleBreakers of the Harlem Renaissance
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Author:  Carole L. Marks, Diana Edkins
Publisher:  Crown Publishing Group
Date Published:  October 1999
Format: Hardcover, 272pp.

ABOUT THE BOOK

From The Publisher
"The Harlem Renaissance was an electrifying period during which huge numbers of African Americans threw off the shackles of discrimination, exploitation, and poverty is the South and moved north. The Power of Pride is a visually spirited and intimate book full of photographs, letters, playbills, and drawings that capture the gaiety and excitement of the time. Moving from the brownstones of Striver's Row in Harlem to the Negro Appreciation salons in Paris, the book focuses an seventeen Renalssance figures who exemplify the themes of race, fortitude, talent, and style, and whose strength of will and ability created a model for all those with dreams and aspirations emerging in the African-American community."--BOOK JACKET.

Review
From Library Journal  
Through text and 150 black-and-white photographs, Marks (Black American studies, Univ. of Delaware) and coauthor Edkins pay tribute to the African Americans who blazed a trail during the Harlem Renaissance. Among those featured are Langston Hughes, Dorothy West, and Duke Ellington. Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

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