“This place is really the last link to the Harlem Renaissance,” he says, in reference to the era spanning the 1920s and 1930s when African American ... in their bias-cut flapper dresses ...
The 1920s were a period of great change. Vintage photographs provide a glimpse at what life was like for women throughout the decade.
Alexandra, the British aristocrat turned Mrs. Spencer Dutton, experiences the American immigration system at its meanest in a new episode of 1923.
Jazz echoed through the night and flapper dresses shimmered under the glow of streetlights ... the cultural legacy of the Harlem Renaissance, an early 20th century African American movement. BSU ...
“The Avicia Thorpe estate was a sort of time capsule filled with details about African American life in Danville,” said Karice ... “I like the ’20s too, which were the flappers and the beadings and ...
With a desire to focus on education for African Americans, Laney founded the Haines Institute ... including securing her claim to fame as America's first flapper. Although the Fitzgerald's time there ...
The door was open for African-American girl groups ... and dressed like they had been raking around in their grandma’s flapper drawer, oozing deco disco style. They scored with Allen Toussaint ...
That horse is the filly Rose of Sharon, who rolled through her single season on the track in 1929, the year of the stock market crash, flappers ... the African-American jockey who had guided ...
An unprecedented exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris explores the presence and influence of Black artists in the city ...
One Baltimore nonprofit is finding creative ways to keep kids engaged in the classroom, all while teaching important lessons in African American history.