Encyclopedia of the Harlem Literary Renaissance

had a daughter, Abigail Calachaly Hubbell, who would later graduate from Bard College, pursue a life in the theater, and become ...

Johnson was one of several Harlem Renais- sance figures who inspired fictional characters. Novelist ARNA BONTEMPS celebrated Joh ...

Johnson, a Republican, campaigned on behalf of Theodore Roosevelt. Thanks to endorsements by BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Johnson was r ...

fluence to generate opportunities that would allow African Americans to demonstrate their “intellec- tual parity... through the ...

McKinney, Richard I. Mordecai, The Man and His Mes- sage: The Story of Mordecai Wyatt Johnson.Washing- ton, D.C.: Howard Univers ...

Baptist pastor on Sundays and a troubled man who sins greatly during the week. The indiscretions of the minister who also writes ...

supportive of his colleague and fellow sociologist CHARLESS. JOHNSON, who was the editor of OP- PORTUNITY,the organization’s off ...

Julius Rosenwald Fellowship A fellowship established by Julius Rosenwald, the president of Sears, Roebuck and Company. The Rosen ...

Kansas State College The poet CLAUDE MCKAY transferred from TUSKEGEE INSTITUTEto Kansas State College in order to pursue his stu ...

Players in 1923 in honor of the actor Charles Gilpin. Gilpin, whose visit to the troupe prompted the name change, received criti ...

Charity Organization Society. He became editor in chief in 1912, and his brother Arthur joined the staff as managing editor. The ...

Bibliography Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., Papers, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Knopf, Alfred ...

In 1931 they revisited the theme CLIMBING JACOB’SLADDER(1931), a riveting antilynching drama by Regina Andrews. The troupe later ...

Rights–era church bombing in Atlanta that killed four young girls. Many Americans, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, pr ...

Lafayette Players Stock Company A theater group founded in NEWYORKCITYin 1914 and the first stock theater company estab- lished ...

After battling pancreatic cancer, La Guardia died in 1947. Following a funeral at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine ...

———. The Life of Langston Hughes: I Dream a World. Vol. 2: 1941–1967.New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Larsen, Nella Mari ...

of their “outstanding ability to compete success- fully with whites” and who were deemed to have “adhered to a code of unimpeach ...

novels such as Home to Harlem(1928) by Claude McKay. Yet, as scholar Cheryl Wall suggests, Larsen did pursue issues that were of ...

ments. The New York Times,which listed her under her married name of Imes, noted only that she “died March 30, 1964, sister of A ...