Object Details
Creator
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
Names
Anacostia Community Museum
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
Black Swan (Sound recording label)
Connie's Inn (New York, N.Y.)
Cotton Club
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Urban League
Savoy Ballroom (Harlem, New York, N.Y.)
Small's Paradise (Nightclub : Harlem, New York, N.Y.)
Universal Negro Improvement Association
BartheĢ, Richmond, 1901-1989
Bledsoe, Jules, 1898-1943
Burleigh, H. T. (Harry Thacker), 1866-1949
Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946
Douglas, Aaron (1899-1979)
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
Fauset, Jessie Redmon
Fuller, Meta Warrick, 1877-1968
Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940
Gilpin, Charles S. (Charles Sidney), 1878-1930
Hayes, Roland, 1887-1977
Henderson, Fletcher, 1897-1952
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Johnson, Charles Spurgeon, 1893-1956
Johnson, Georgia Douglas, 1886-1966
Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938
Johnson, Sargent (1888-1967)
Johnson, William H. (1901-1970)
Jones, Lois Mailou (1905-1998)
Larsen, Nella
Locke, Alain, 1885-1954
McKay, Claude, 1890-1948
Motley, Archibald John, 1891-1981
Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979
Richardson, Willis, 1889-1977
Robeson, Paul (1898-1976)
Smith, Bessie, 1894-1937
Smith, Mamie
Still, William Grant (1821-1902)
Thurman, Wallace, 1902-1934
Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
Walker, C. J., Madam, 1867-1919
White, Walter, 1893-1955 (President, N.A.A.C.P)
Collection Creator
Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
Citation
The Renaissance: Black Arts of the South Exhibit Tape, Exhibition Records AV03-024, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Scope and Contents
During the audio tour of exhibition, The Renaissance: Black Arts of the Twenties, narrator Robert Hall presents the evolution and achievements of black creative expression beginning in Harlem and spreading across the United States during th 1920s. Literary, visual, performance, and cinematic achievements are profiled. Including brief biographical histories and achievements by Marcus Garvey, James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Fauset, A. Philip Randolph, Claude McKay, Nella Larson, Carl Van Vechten, Countee Cullen, Alain Locke, Harry T. Burleigh, Paul Robeson, Roland Hayes, Lois Mailou Jones, Jules Bledsoe, Fletcher Henderson, Bessie Smith, and Mamie Smith.
Self guided audio tour narration. Part of The Renaissance: Black Arts of the Twenties Audiovisual Records. AV001362: master. Undated.
sova.acma.03-024_ref503
Local Numbers
ACMA AV001362
General
Title transcribed from physical asset.
Place
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
Washington (D.C.)
United States
Occupation
Artists
Dramatists
Topic
African Americans
African American women
Harlem Renaissance
African American authors
African American women authors
Authors
African American poets
Poets
African American artists
Sculpture
Painting
African Americans in the performing arts
Musical theater
African American musicians
Musicians
Spirituals (Songs)
Jazz
Blues (Music)
Museum exhibits
Creator
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
See more items in
The Renaissance: Black arts of the Twenties Exhibition Records
The Renaissance: Black arts of the Twenties Exhibition Records / Series 3: Audiovisual Material
Biographical / Historical
The exhibition - The Renaissance: Black Arts of the Twenties - showcased the evolution and achievements of the Renaissance, which was the explosion of literary, visual, performance, and cinematic creativity generated by black artists between the end of World War I and the early days of the Great Depression. Represented is the creativity of Marian Anderson, Richard Barthe, Countee Cullen, Aaron Douglas, Duke Ellington, Meta Warrick Fuller, Roland Hayes, Zora Neale Hurston, Malvin Gray Johnson, Alain Locke, "Jelly Roll" Morton, Paul Robeson, George Schuyler, and Wallace Thurman, among others. The exhibition, held at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, ran from September 1985 - December 1986.
Extent
1 Sound recording (open reel, 1/4 inch)
1 Sound recording (audio cassette)
Date
circa 1985
Custodial History
Created for Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. Narrator: Robert Hall.
Archival Repository
Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Identifier
ACMA.03-024, Item ACMA AV002682
Type
Archival materials
Sound recordings
Narration
Genre/Form
Sound recordings
Narration
Note
002755 002744
Series Restrictions
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Some items are not accessible due to obsolete format and playback machinery restrictions. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
ACMA.03-024_ref503
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ACMA.03-024
ACMA
Record ID
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