Research: The Jazz Age: The Roaring Twenties

Online Resources on the 1920s and the Jazz Age

African Age: African and African American Diasporan Transformations in the Twentieth Century
An online exhibit from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. Contains images related to Du Bois, the Harlem Renaissance, and more as well as essays and maps.
Drop Me off in Harlem
Faces of the Harlem Renaissance
Harlem Renaissance Materials
African-American expressions of writing, music, and art during the 1920s and 1930s are well represented in the vast collections of the Library of Congress.
In Motion: The African American Immigration Experience
The Jazz Age - Multiple Links
Library of Congress Web Guide
A Guide to Harlem Renaissance Materials
The New Negro Renaissance
Essays, images, interviews, maps
Prohibition in Chicago - Images
The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of NYC Speakeasies
A short overview of the origin and decline of speakeasies in New York
The Roaring Twenties - University of Houston
The Roaring Twenties by History.com
Articles, videos, speeches
Temperance and Prohibition
W. E. B. Du Bois Papers, 1803-1999
From the Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Zora Neal Hurston Digital Archive
Includes digital facsimiles of the original manuscripts of ,em>Their Eyes Were Watching God, Dust Tracks on a Road, and Mule Bone: A Comedy in Three Acts, bibliographies, background information, and more.

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A growing digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
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Bootleg by Karen Blumenthal
Call Number: 363.4 BLU
ISBN: 159643449X
Publication Date: 2011-05-24
Fracture by Philipp Blom
Call Number: 909.82 BLO
ISBN: 9780465022496
Publication Date: 2015-04-14
Rebel Musics by Daniel Fischlin (Editor); Ajay Heble (Editor)
Call Number: 306.4 REB
ISBN: 1551642301
Publication Date: 2003-09-01