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The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. [1]
Harvey B. Gantt Center: Charlotte: North Carolina: 1974 [76] Henderson Institute Historical Museum: Henderson: North Carolina: 1986 [77] Hotel Metropolitan Museum: Paducah: Kentucky [78] Houston Museum of African American Culture: Houston: Texas: 2012 [79] Howard County Center of African American Culture: Columbia: Maryland: 1987 [80] Idaho ...
The Arlington Museum of Art has hosted numerous traveling exhibitions, including those featuring photography by Ansel Adams, [11] art by Salvador Dalí, [12] Milton H. Greene's photographs of Marilyn Monroe, [13] Harlem Renaissance artwork (including works by Richmond Barthé, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence, and Charles White), [14] Utagawa Hiroshige's woodblock prints, [15] Vivian Maier's ...
Anne Bethel Spencer (born Bannister; February 6, 1882 – July 27, 1975) was an American poet, teacher, civil rights activist, librarian, and gardener.She was a prominent figure of the Harlem Renaissance, also known as the New Negro Movement, despite living in Virginia for most of her life, far from the center of the movement in New York.
The writer, social activist and leading Harlem Renaissance figure Langston Hughes moved into the top floor of this Italianate-style brownstone on New York City’s East 127th Street in 1947.
Melvin Beaunorus Tolson (February 6, 1898 – August 29, 1966) was an American poet, educator, columnist, and politician. As a poet, he was influenced both by Modernism and the language and experiences of African Americans, and he was deeply influenced by his study of the Harlem Renaissance.
American Girl’s latest historical doll is Claudie Wells, a girl who finds her own voice during the Harlem Renaissance Carly Caramanna August 23, 2022 at 8:00 AM
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10 , Interstate 45 , and Interstate 69 .