"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.
Robert O'Meally, the Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University, discusses the rich and varied musical environment in Harlem, particular styles of music associated with Harlem, and the role of Harlem churches as performance spaces.
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