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Meet the Mamma: A Musical Play in Three Acts
This is the cover to an experimental musical that Zora Neale Hurston wrote in 1925, early in her career. It was interesting to see another play written to by Hurston. Unlike Hurston's play in Fire!!, this musical takes place in New York City. To see…
Zora Neale Hurston in Eatonville, Florida
Depicted here is a picture of Zora Neale Hurston in her hometown of Eatonville, Florida. Many of her short stories and novels were said to be based off of Eatonville. Eatonville is a majority African American community, supplying Hurston a plethora…
Zora Neale Hurston's Analysis on Ebonics
This is a short sample of Zora Neale Hurston's analysis and research on African American, language and culture. Much of the analysis that she made was based off of her research on African American folklore and travelling the south. In the this…
Club Alabam
The picture shows a integrated night club during a time where this was very unpopular to do. It was mentioned in the poem "Little Cinderella" which is what drew my interest to it. You can see that it is a very lively place where both Black and White…
Lenox Avenue Clubs
Lenox Avenue was the most popular street in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance. Lenox Avenue served as a major hub for African American culture during the Harlem Renaissance. Here, clubs and restaurants sprung up that featured some of the most…
Live Jazz
Jazz was a major part of the culture of 1920s. The newly available technology such as radio and phonographs allowed this type of music to be easily accessed by all groups. For one of the first times in history, it was easy for the general public to…
Alberto Giacometti-- inspired by African Art?
Apparently a photograph from Life Magazine, showing Alberto Giacometti with a number of his sculptures. In form, they distinctly resemble the African art Alain Locke included in his article, "The Art of Our Ancestors," in the issue of Survey Graphic…
Charlotte Mason Osgood
This a photo of Charlotte Mason Osgood, the patron of African American Arts during the Harlem Renaissance. Ms.Osgood supported many famous Harlem Renaissance writers and artists like Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston. Langston Hughes mentions…
Lenox Avenue
This photo is an picture of Lenox Avenue in the 1920s. Lenox Ave seems to be a predominately African American area and also very busy and bustling. Lenox Ave is filled with identical buildings, all of which have the same height, same width, and…
Broadway Contrasts. George Beban and Holbrook Blinn.
Below is a image that is titled "Broadway Contrasts. George Beban and Holbrook Blinn." and it features two men back-to-back who were famous actors at the time. The man on the right is Holbrook Blinn who looks more business dressed with a rounded hat…
Cotton Club Orchestra
The photo featured here is the orchestra that played at the infamous Cotton Club in Harlem. As Langston Hughes mentioned in his reflective piece about Harlem Renaissance, the Cotton Club was a club exclusively for white patrons in the middle of…
Dream A Little Dream Of Me
Louis Armstrong was an important figure in the development of jazz music. He influenced the jazz we know today as a pivotal trumpeter, singer and song writer. He was one of the first popular African-American entertainers. Starting with his trumpet…
Whites in the Cotton Club
"So thousands of whites came to Harlem night after night, thinking the Negroes loved to have them there, and firmly believing that al Harlemites left their houses at sundown to sing and dance in cabarets, because most of the whites saw nothing but…
Wedding Party of Four
This photo depicts two young black couples dressed on what can be assumed their wedding day. James Van Der Zee, the photographer of this photo, was well known during the Harlem Renaissance. He documented the portraits of the African Americans that…
Panel No. 1, The Migration Series
The illustration depicts the many African Americans that were fleeing the south for better opportunity in the North. In the painting you see 3 major cities: New York, Chicago, and St. Louis. These as well as cities like Detroit and LA experience a…
PanelNo. 31
It is a mixture of the harsh broad colors of the street and environment met with much brighter and happier colors that were found in the shops and homes of those living in Harlem.
Labor Strike in 1920's
This image demonstrates a labor strike. The workers are upset with their low wages and poor working conditions. This image was taken during the Great Depression but it is described in the article that minority workers found little difference…
Harlem Nightlife Map
This map depicts the social nightlife of Harlem in the early 1930’s. It was drawn by E. Simms Campbell who was an African American artists in the 1900’s, who frequently had his work publish in African American magazines. The map shows specific night…
Laws for Granting Citizenship to Women
"Vos Yede Froy Darf Visen Vegen Birgershaft", which directly translates to "What Every Woman Should Know about Citizenship." The book is written in both Yiddish and English. This information booklet was made in 1926 by the National Council of Jewish…