Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, and Ollie Harrington Celebrated in Beinecke Exhibition
Examples from the exhibitions
An exhibition exploring extraordinary materials collected by Walter and Linda Evans now in the Beinecke’s care, Douglass, Baldwin, Harrington: The Collections of Walter O. Evans at Beinecke Library celebrates Frederick Douglass, James Baldwin, and Ollie Harrington, key figures of Black history, art, and culture.
Running through July 7 at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, Connecticut, Douglass, Baldwin, Harrington honors Walter and Linda Evans and their work advocating for, documenting, and celebrating Black arts in America.
The exhibition has three parts:
* Frederick Douglass: Family and Legacy , curated by Melissa Barton, Curator, Drama and Prose, Yale Collection of American Literature and James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters . On show on the ground floor, south side of building & Mezzanine (upstairs)
* “Love Jimmy”: Letters from James Baldwin to Mary Painter, 1957 , curated by Nancy Kuhl, Curator, Poetry, Yale Collection of American Literature and James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters, Available on the ground floor, north side of the building
* Ollie Harrington: Expressing the Revolution , curated by Kassidi Jones, Ph.D. Candidate, Yale Departments of African American Studies and English . On show in the Mezzanine
