Photo from Georgia Center for the Book African American, Federal Writers’ Project, Literature Frank Yerby (1916-1991) Dr. Frank Yerby wrote 33 popular historical romance novels that challenged white conceptions of Southern history and culture. He was the first African American to have one of his novels adapted into a commercial movie. Earlier in his career, […]
Women of courage : an exhibition of photographs based on the Black Women Oral History Project, by Judith Sedwick; sponsored by the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College. [Cambridge, Mass.] : Radcliffe College, c1984. HOLLIS collection-level record: 007598802 African American, Federal Writers’ Project, Literature Margaret Walker Alexander
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Ralph Ellison, photographed in 1960 by a United States Information Agency staff photographer. NARA reference number 306-PSA-61-8989. African American, Federal Writers’ Project, Literature Ralph Ellison (1913-1994) Ralph Waldo Ellison worked as an interviewer and researcher in New York City’s Federal Writers’ Project, documenting African American urban history and folklore on his way to becoming an
Richard Wright by Gordon Parks, May 1943. Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Reproduction Number: LC-USW3-030278-D African American, Federal Writers’ Project, Literature Richard Nathaniel Wright (1908-1960) Richard Wright, acclaimed author, and recognized leader of the Chicago Renaissance (1935- 1950) conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the Black communities of Chicago
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Photo courtesy of Photograph c.1945 from State Library of Louisiana / 64parishes.org African American Poet, Author, Editor, and Librarian Arna Bontemps (1902–1973) Arna Bontemps made an indelible impact on African American folklore studies, literature, history, and cultural expression as a poet, author, editor, and librarian. Born in Alexandria, Louisiana, Arnaud (Arna) Wendell Bontemps, son of
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Sterling [A.] Brown, Oct. 7 #119: [cellulose acetate photonegative and contact print, 1944]. Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.) (photographers). Black-and-white film negatives (Series 4), Scurlock Studio Records, 1905-1994. Smithsonian Institution. African American, Federal Writers’ Project, Literature Sterling Allen Brown (1901-1989) Sterling Allen Brown was a renowned poet who documented and championed African American traditional culture in
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Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964, photographer. 1936 Feb. 29. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten Collection, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-92598 (b&w film copy neg.), LOT 12735, no. 540 [P&P] African American, Federal Writers’ Project, Literature Langston Hughes (1901-1967) Preeminent Harlem Renaissance writer James Mercer Langston Hughes made a lasting impression on American cultural
Image from Temple University, Urban Archives, Philadelphia, PA. African American, Folklore, Literature Arthur Huff Fauset (1899-1983) Arthur Huff Fauset was born in New Jersey in 1899. His father, Redmon Fauset, was an African American minister. His mother, Bella Huff, was Jewish. Fauset grew up in Philadelphia and earned his AB (1921), an MA (1923) and
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Photograph of Mourning Dove taken in the author’s later years. She is wearing traditional Native American apparel and holding a woven basket. 1925. Lucullus Virgil McWhorter Photographs at Washington State University Libraries’ Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC). pc085b05f71_95-131 Native American (Okanogan and Arrow Lakes), Ethnography, Literature Mourning Dove (Hum-ishu-ma / Christine Quintasket) (1884-1936) Mourning
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. “Composers Bob Cole, James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson” New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed October 12, 2022. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7f947850-e020-0130-79c8-58d385a7b928 African American, Music, Literature, Activism and African American, Music, Theater James Weldon Johnson and John Rosamond Johnson (1871-1938)
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