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Countee Cullen Collection

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 7
Abstract:

Countee Cullen gained fame principally as a poet, during the Harlem Renaissance, and later taught in the New York City school system.

Dates: 1923-1946

Photographs of prominent African Americans

 Collection
Call Number: JWJ MSS 76
Abstract: Photographs drawn from various collections in the James Weldon Johnson Collection. The collection includes predominantly images of prominent African American writers, cultural leaders, and entertainers, as well as photographs by important African American photographers. A small number of images document people and places outside the United States. The collection forms a visual record of artists, writers, actors, musicians, and politicians active chiefly in the United States from the 1920s...
Dates: 1875-1978