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Harlem Renaissance 1920 - 1940 Resurgence in black culture, also called the New Negro Movement, which took place in the 1920s and early 1930s, primarily in Harlem, a neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan, but also in major cities throughout the USA, such as Chicago, Detroit, St Louis, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Boston, Atlanta ...
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Children play in a water-soaked street oblivious to the tragedy of the burned-out church behind them. Adults look away, avoiding one another’s eyes and the spectacle of the still-smoldering structure. A rash of church bombings in the early 1960s may have been the initial prompt for this painting.
From its founding in 1925 during the Harlem Renaissance, the Center has amassed vast collections of over 10 million items. Resource materials are organized by format into five distinct divisions: Research and Reference; Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books; Photographs and Prints; Moving Image and Recorded Sound; and Art and Artifacts.
The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally and internationally and for work that has been inspired and influenced by black culture. It is a site for the dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society.
In the United States, other cities—Chicago, Los Angeles, and Atlanta—figured prominently as destinations for migration and as sites of creative output during the period. In his memoir Black Boy, Richard Wright captures this story of movement, from his boyhood in Mississippi to his early adulthood in Chicago. Wright’s book also prompts ...
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This edition adds a prologue describing the major dynamics in America that have altered life on the streets of East Harlem in the six years since the first edition.
For over 30 years this wall at a Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of local street artists. Every year a theme and artists are chosen to decorate this part of Park Avenue, Manhattan New York.