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A Great Day in Harlem. A Great Day in Harlem or Harlem 1958 is a black-and-white photograph of 57 jazz musicians in Harlem, New York, taken by freelance photographer Art Kane for Esquire magazine on August 12, 1958. [1] The idea for the photo came from Esquire ' s art director, Robert Benton, rather than Kane. [2]
MacLachlan was born in Harlem, New York City; her mother, Iris South MacLachlan, and father, James MacLachlan, were both Jamaican-born members of the Church of the Illumination. Attending P.S. 170 and Julia Ward Junior High School, MacLachlan graduated from Julia Richman High School in 1950.
Stunning black-and-white images from over 70 years ago show what life used to be like in one of Manhattan's most famous neighborhoods.
Amos 'n' Andy was an American radio sitcom about black characters, initially set in Chicago then later in the Harlem section of New York City. While the show had a brief life on 1950s television with black actors, the 1928 to 1960 radio show was created, written and voiced by two white actors, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, who played Amos Jones (Gosden), Andrew Hogg Brown (Correll), and ...
Benjamin J. Davis – New York City councilman, ultimately sent to jail for violations of the Smith Act [37] Ossie Davis – actor and director; lived in Harlem in the late 1930s and mid-1940s Sammy Davis Jr. – entertainer, actor, member of Rat Pack , born in Harlem Hospital in 1925 [ 58 ]
Washington was a theater writer, and the entertainment editor for The People's Voice (1942–1948), a newspaper for African Americans founded by Adam Clayton Powell Jr., a Baptist minister and politician in New York City. He was married to her sister Isabel Washington Powell. [1] [22]
Some Harlem figures, like W. E. B. Du Bois, opposed this choice of materials because it did not promote the work of black playwrights. By 1924, the Players were divided up into four different groups. The original cast stayed at the Lafayette Theater in Harlem. A new group was created in Chicago. Then two traveling groups formed—one that ...
Estrada was born on March 16, 1949, in East Harlem, Manhattan, New York, the son of Carmen Moreno, a seamstress, and Renildo Estrada. [1] He is of Puerto Rican descent. [2] Growing up, he thought about becoming a police officer but turned to acting after joining the drama club at Louis D. Brandeis High School. [3]