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The Harlem YMCA is located at 180 West 135th Street between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1931-32, the red-brown brick building with neo-Georgian details was designed by the Architectural Bureau of the National Council of the YMCA , with James C. Mackenzie Jr. as the architect in charge.
Investigation and arrest. During the roaring twenties, in the city of Harlem, prostitution was one of many major occupations deemed inappropriate and obscene. Black prostitutes of the Harlem Renaissance were examined over a course of time and were place on a political watch list. In 1928, the Committee of Fourteen examined the nightlife of Harlem.
13 ott 2004 · ABSTRACT. From the music of Louis Armstrong to the portraits by Beauford Delaney, the writings of Langston Hughes to the debut of the musical Show Boat, the Harlem Renaissance is one of the most significant developments in African-American history in the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance, in two-volumes and over 635 ...
Harlem Renaissance (Harlem- renæssancen) refererer til opblomstringen af det afroamerikanske kulturelle og intellektuelle liv i 1920'ernes og 1930'ernes USA. På det tidspunkt var bevægelsen kendt som "New Negro Movement" (den nye negerbevægelse), navngivet efter antologien The New Negro, redigeret af Alain Locke i 1925.
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that ...
Alain LeRoy Locke (September 13, 1885 – June 9, 1954) was an American writer, philosopher, and educator. Distinguished in 1907 as the first African-American Rhodes Scholar, Locke became known as the philosophical architect—the acknowledged "Dean"—of the Harlem Renaissance. [2] He is frequently included in listings of influential African ...
Henry Bannarn, ca. 1937. Born. 1910. Wetumka, Oklahoma. Nationality. American. Henry Wilmer "Mike" Bannarn (July 17, 1910 – September 20, 1965) was an African-American artist, best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance period. He is known for his work in sculpture and as a character artist in the various paint mediums, Conté ...
