In Boston they ask how much does he know. In New York, how much is he worth. In Philadelphia, who were his parents.
Literature
Paul Laurence Dunbar
James Weldon Johnson
Frances E. W. Harper
Pauline Hopkins
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Art
Edmonia Lewis
Meta Vaux Warrick
Henry O. Tanner
E. M. Bannister
May Howard Jackson
Music
Harry T. Burleigh
E. Azalia Hackley
Thomas G. Bethune
Scott Joplin
James Reese Europe
Will Marion Cook
J. Rosamond Johnson
Marie Selika
Flora Batson
Critical Response:
Miss Lewis is by no means a prodigy; she has great natural genius, originality, earnestness, and a simple, genuine taste. Her works are as yet those of a girl. She has read Evangeline, and some others of Longfellow’s poems, and has caught from them a girlish sentimentality, but has rather improved upon her author’s [...]
Belle da Costa Greene summed up her individuality and allure in one phrase: “Just because I am a librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one.” The library profession was in its infancy, but this attractive and vivacious woman happened to be the curator of a library owned by one of the world’s most [...]
Modern and avant-garde art introduced itself to 1913 New York much against the latter’s will. Since the emergence of Impressionism, many other shocking developments in artistic expression set the world afire. However, these movements were smaller, grounded by one or two artists, and usually returned underground after the public’s initial outrage. By the 1910s, these [...]
Ladies’ fashions had pretty much settled by the Edwardian era. The days when Charles Worth would wreak sensation and havoc upon the lives of his female clients had passed, and for the most part, the silhouettes of the 1880s, 1890s and early 1900s flowed neatly with one another; only minor bumps like the brief fashion [...]
Long before Virginia Woolf and her “Bloomsbury Group” became synonymous with the now quaint London neighborhood, the area was a “grimy, sordid, squalid region” where “no nice people lived.” Its boundaries roughly defined by Tottenham Court Road to the west, Euston Road to the north, Gray’s Inn Road to the east, and either High Holborn [...]
