"Harlem, New York, was a place where for the first time Negroes got out into the mainstream of the dramatic world. You had extraordinarily large dramatic movements." —A. Philip Randolph
Special Feature: Treasures from the M. Moran Weston Papers
Rarely seen images from a 1945 Negro Freedom Rally are accompanied by
video of Professor Manning Marable providing historical background on
them. A short slide show of other images from the Weston papers is also
included.
Langston Hughes Columbia University Archives-Columbiana Library
An excerpt from a New Yorker magazine "Talk of the Town" piece describes a memorial service for Harlem poet and former Columbia student Langston Hughes, held on campus at Columbia in 1967.
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