including Jacob Lawrence. Another artist of the Harlem Renaissance was James Van Der Zee, who, through his photography, ...

The Lawrence, named after Harlem Renaissance artist Jacob Lawrence, is a 129-unit apartment project on a site that fronts both Michigan Avenue and Maple Street adjacent to the Medical Campus.

The Harlem Renaissance was a powerful rebuke to those stereotypes and the negative self-image that often resulted for Black people. This did not mean that the writers idealized things, though.