Niggerati
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Niggerati was the name used, with deliberate irony, by Wallace Thurman for the group of young African-American artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. "Niggerati" is a portmanteau of "nig
First and only issue of the 1926 literary magazine "Fire!!"
Cover image of first issue of the 1928 Negro literary journal "Harlem: A forum of Negro life"
Harlem Renaissance
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The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural movement of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics, and scholarship centered in Harlem, New York City, spann
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was a historian, writer, curator, and archivist regarded as an important intellectual figure in the Harlem Renaissance. In 1926, the New York Public Library purchased his collection of 4,600 books, pamphlets, art, and manuscripts on Black culture and held them at the 135th Street Branch Library, now the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
The multi-talented Adelaide Hall and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in the musical comedy Brown Buddies on Broadway, 1930
Poster for Run, Little Chillun
Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie is emblematic of the mixture of high-class society, popular art, and virtuosity of jazz.