Gwendolyn B. Bennett
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Gwendolyn B. Bennett was an American artist, writer, and journalist who contributed to Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, which chronicled cultural advancements during the Harlem Renaissance. Thoug
Photograph of Gwendolyn Bennett in the 1920s
The Crisis
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The Crisis is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois, Oswald Garrison Villard, J. Max Barber, Charles Edward Russe
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
…in 1921, Bennett took art classes at Columbia University and the Pratt Institute. In her undergraduate studies, her poem "Heritage" was published in The Crisis, magazine of the NAACP, during November 1923; in December of the same year, "Heritage" was included in Opportunity, a magazine published by the National…
The Crisis, Vol. 19, No. 1, November 1919
First issue, November 1910
A 1911 copy of The Crisis depicting a copy of the relief of Nebmaatre I on Meroe pyramid 17
The August 1920 cover is a typical example of the annual education number under Du Bois's editorship.