The James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of African American Arts and Letters was founded in 1941 by Carl Van Vechten as a memorial to Dr. James Weldon Johnson;
Please join us for a reading by poet Natasha Trethewey on Wednesday, November 8, 4:00 pm at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street.
Founded in 1941 by Carl Van Vechten, this collection stands as a memorial to Dr. James Weldon Johnson and celebrates the accomplishments of African American writers and artists, beginning with those of the Harlem Renaissance.
Materials featured on African American Studies at Beinecke Library may be protected by copyright restrictions; permission to publish should be sought from the owners of the rights, typically the creator or the heirs to his or her estate.
An exhibition of sheet music representing all the major African American musical genres of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including ragtime, black musical theater, folk songs, spirituals, the blues, and jazz.
African Americans’ responses to the complicated social and political upheaval in United States during the 1960s and 1970s were as varied as they were significant.
