The following
individuals and institutions have granted permission
for use of the images below.*
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| Image of Eubie Blake, Shuffle
Along chorus girls, and Shuffle Along publicity
photo courtesy of the Maryland Historical Society. |
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| Image of Cab Calloway courtesy
of the Archives of the Peabody Institute of the Johns
Hopkins University. |
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| Above images courtesy of the
Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York
Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
(From top left): Ethel Waters in As Thousands Cheer,
1933; portrait of Countee Cullen [photographer: James
L. Allen]; Charles Gilpin in The Emperor Jones;
portrait of Claude McKay [photographer: James L. Allen];
portrait of Florence Mills [photographer: White Studios];
The Lafayette Theater on the opening night of Voodoo
MacBeth; Jessie Redmon Fauset; Lobby Card, advertisement
from Oscar Micheaux's Harlem After Midnight. |
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| Above images courtesy of the
Art & Artifacts Division, Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York
Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
(From left) Aaron Douglas. Aspects of Negro Life:
Song of the Towers, [oil on canvas], 1934; Meta
Warrick Fuller. The Awakening of Ethiopia,
c. 1910. [sculpture]. |
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| Fire!! New York, vol.
1, no.1, Nov 1926, cover, courtesy of the Manuscripts,
Archives, & Rare Book Division, Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York
Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations.
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| Image of Duke Ellington,
the Cotton Club, the Cotton Club dancers, Cotton Club
matchbook, Cotton Club menu, "Brown Sugar"
sheet music, Duke Ellington at the piano, the manuscript
of Ellington's "Black Beauty," Brunswick
Record Label, and Ellington composing courtesy of
the Duke
Ellington Centennial Celebration. |
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| Image of Marcus Garvey and the
masthead of Negro World courtesy of The
Marcus Garvey and UNIA Papers Project, UCLA. |
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| Image of Palmer Hayden courtesy
of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Papers
of African American Artists. |
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| Images of Fletcher Henderson,
Bessie Smith, Earl "Snakehips" Tucker, the
interior of Connie's Inn, and the Renaissance Ballroom
courtesy of the Frank Driggs Collection. |
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| Images of Langston Hughes, Charles
S. Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston,
Paul Robeson, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, and
Carl Van Vechten by Carl Van Vechten, courtesy of the
Van Vechten Trust. |
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| Image of James P. Johnson courtesy
of the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University. |
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| Images of Alain Locke and Sterling
Brown courtesy of the Moorland-Springarn Research Center
of the Founders Library at Howard University, Washington,
DC. |
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| Image of Augusta Savage courtesy
of the Green
Coves Springs City Council, Green Coves Springs,
FL. |
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| Image of William Grant Still,
the manuscript of Afro-American Symphony, courtesy
of Still
Going On. Celebrating the Life and Times of William
Grant Still. Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special
Collections Library, Duke University. Used with permission
of Judith Anne Still. |
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| Image of Wallace Thurman courtesy
of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale
University. |
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| Image of James VanDerZee, Self-portrait,
1918; Group Portrait in the Dark Tower, 1929; Abyssinian
Baptist Church, 1927; and Couple in Raccoon Coats, 1932:
All Photographed by James VanDerZee; © Donna Mussenden
VanDerZee, all rights reserved. |
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| Images of the James VanDerZee
Studio,
Harlem Branch YMCA, Countee Cullen Branch of the New
York Public Library, and Mother A.M.E. Zion Church used
with permission of the New York City Department of City
Planning. |
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| Image of the Savoy Ballroom courtesy
of George Karger/Pix Inc./Timepix. |
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| Image of the Tree of Hope courtesy
of Hansel Mieth/Timepix. |
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| Image of one page of the manuscript,
"Gentleman Jigger," by Richard Bruce Nugent
courtesy of Thomas H. Wirth. |
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| Image of Arna Bontemps courtesy
of the Arna
Bontemps Museum, Alexandria, Louisiana. |
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| Image of Selma Burke's bust of
Duke Ellington courtesy of the Marcus
Center for the Performing Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
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| Image of the cover of James Weldon
Johnson's God's Trombones (illustration by
Aaron Douglas) and The Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Aaron Douglas courtesy of The
Walter O. Evans Foundation for Art and Literature. |
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| Image of Leon James and Willa
Mae Ricker demonstrating a step of The Lindy Hop courtesy
of Gjon Mili/Timepix. |
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| Image of the covers of Opportunity
Journal courtesy of The
National Urban League. |
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| Augusta Savage in her studio
working on The Harp courtesy of the Morgan
and Marvin Smith Photograph Collection, Photographs
and Prints Division, Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York
Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations. |
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| Image of A'Lelia Walker courtesy
of the A'Lelia Bundles/Walker Family Collection. |
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| Image of the Shuffle Along
manuscript courtesy of the Library of Congress. |
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| Aaron Douglas with Arthur Schomburg
and the Song of Towers mural (1934), courtesy
of the Works Project Administration Collection. |
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| Cover of Messenger magazine
(July 1918), courtesy of Thomas
Fleming. |
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| Cover of Survey Graphic:
"Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro" courtesy
of the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia. |
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