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Measuring the 1930s’ Harlem With Half and Half of a Dream By Tares Oburumu

It is then sayable, that post-colonial Nigeria is Harlem of the 1930s rebuilt from the ruins of a history that was strangulation, rather than a series of events that progressed geometrically. And Nimi ...
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The Women Who Became Hair Icons During The Harlem Renaissance

Between the 1920s and mid to late 1930s, an artistic explosion took place in Harlem, New York. More popularly known as the “Harlem Renaissance,” this historical period gave us a slew of iconic artists ...
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Educating Harlem a century of schooling and resistance in a Black community edited by Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell

Introduction -- Part I. Debating what and how Harlem students learn in the Renaissance and beyond -- Schooling the new Negro: progressive education, black modernity, and the long Harlem Renaissance -- ...
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The Black Chicago Renaissance / edited by Darlene Clark Hine and John McCluskey Jr. ; Marshanda A. Smith, managing editor

" Beginning in the 1930s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950s and rivaled the cultural outpouring in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The contributors to ...
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The Harlem roots of chicken and waffles

In the vibrant heart of 1930s New York City, the Harlem Renaissance was in full swing, marking a cultural revolution for Black Americans. Artists, writers and intellectuals gathered in Harlem’s clubs, ...