• of theatre companies are associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Anita Bush, a pioneer in African American theater, began an acting company after seeing...
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  • 1920s Harlem", Digital Harlem Blog, June 3, 2011, accessed August 22, 2011 "Thousands Witnessed The Thrilling battle that Brought Victory to Renaissance Five"...
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    The Victoria Theater was a theater located on 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It was designed in 1917 by Thomas...
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    The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship...
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  • American Renaissance (literature) Black Renaissance in D.C. Charleston Renaissance Chicago Black Renaissance Harlem Renaissance Harlem Renaissance theater companies...
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    century. In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the center of the Harlem Renaissance, a major African-American cultural movement. With job...
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    The Renaissance Ballroom & Casino was an entertainment complex at 2341–2349 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (Seventh Avenue) in the Harlem neighborhood...
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  • Renaissance tragedy For Renaissance Theatre or Renaissance Theater as venues, see: Renaissance Theatre (Mansfield, Ohio), movie palace-type theater Renaissance...
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    The Story of Harlem's Apollo Theatre. Cowles Book Company. ISBN 978-0-402-12062-9. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Apollo Theater. Official website...
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    was one of the most famous theaters in Harlem. It was an entertainment venue located at 132nd Street and 7th Avenue in Harlem, New York. The structure was...
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  • Disney Animation Studios that saw the company achieve renewed critical and commercial success Harlem Renaissance, an intellectual, social, and artistic...
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    Islands, and patronage of the Harlem Renaissance. Harlem adapted rapidly to the coming of Prohibition, and its theaters, nightclubs, and speakeasies became...
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    East Harlem, also known as Spanish Harlem, Finnish Harlem or El Barrio, is a neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City, north of the Upper East...
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  • Krigwa Players (category Harlem Renaissance)
    based out of Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance. Though it only lasted for three years, The Krigwa Players' impact was felt throughout Harlem and the cities...
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  • Songs of the Harlem River: Forgotten One Acts of the Harlem Renaissance is a collection of five one-act plays written between 1920 and 1930 by several...
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  • Theophilus Lewis (category Harlem Renaissance)
    African-American drama critic, a writer, and a magazine editor during the Harlem Renaissance whose contributions primarily appeared in The Messenger, the socialist...
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    The Harlem Globetrotters are an American exhibition basketball team. They combine athleticism, theater, entertainment, and comedy in their style of play...
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    first prominent black film stars, Jones was a living link with the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, having worked with Langston Hughes early in...
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    The Harlem Alhambra was a theater in Harlem, New York, built in 1905, that began as a vaudeville venue. The building still stands at 2108-2118 Adam Clayton...
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    Edna Lewis Thomas (category Harlem Renaissance)
    during the Harlem Renaissance. She appeared on Broadway, with the Lafayette Players theater company, and in productions by the Federal Theater Project of...
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  • hopefulness that had fueled the Harlem Renaissance was dead". Sociologist Allen D. Grimshaw called the Harlem riot of 1935 "the first manifestation of...
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    women's suffrage movement Black suffrage in the United States Harlem Renaissance theater companies Botzum, Lexie (2020). "Biography of Marie Jackson Stuart...
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  • Harold Jackman (category Harlem Renaissance)
    American art and literature. Raised in Harlem, Jackman was known for his involvement in the Harlem Renaissance and his dedication to preserving African...
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  • Underneath a Harlem Moon ... the Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall, Bayou Jazz Lives, Continuum, 2002, ISBN 0826458939 James Haskins, Black Theater in America...
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    Richard Bruce Nugent (category Harlem Renaissance)
    American gay writer and painter in the Harlem Renaissance. Despite being a part of a group of many gay Harlem artists, Nugent was among the handful who...
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    the film made over $4,000 during its opening week at just the Renaissance Theater in Harlem. That financial success led to its run being extended there...
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    for Black theater professionals) Harlem Renaissance Harlem Renaissance theater companies Harlem Repertory Theatre Lafayette Theatre (Harlem) National...
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    it was a landmark in African-American musical theater, credited with inspiring the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s. The show premiered at the...
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    The Renaissance Center, commonly known as the RenCen, is a complex of seven connected skyscrapers in downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States. The Renaissance...
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    Cotton Club (category 20th century in Harlem)
    "The Cotton Club". Steve Watson, "The Harlem Renaissance". New York Times, 1937. "Duke Ellington", The Harlem Reader, p. 76. "Cotton Club Grosses $45...
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