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  • Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight

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  • A Shining Thread of Hope

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  • Zora Neale Hurston

    A Life in Letters

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    “ I mean to live and die by my own mind,” Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance, only to die in obscurity. Not until the 1970s was she rediscovered by Alice Walker and other admirers. Although Hurston has entered the pantheon as one of the ... Read more

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    Innocents at Home

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  • Miss Anne in Harlem

    The White Women of the Black Renaissance

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    Celebrated scholar Carla Kaplan’s cultural biography, Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, focuses on white women, collectively called “Miss Anne,” who became Harlem Renaissance insiders.The 1920s in New York City was a time of freedom, experimentation, and passion—with Harlem at the epicenter. White men could go uptown to see jazz and modern dance, but women who embraced ... Read more

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    A Cultural History of American Movies

    by Robert Sklar ...
    Hailed as the definitive work upon its original publication in 1975 and now extensively revised and updated by the author, this vastly absorbing and richly illustrated book examines film as an art form, technological innovation, big business, and shaper of American values.Ever since Edison's peep shows first captivated urban audiences, film has had a revolutionary impact on American society, ... Read more

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  • Harlem Renaissance

    by the late Nathan Irvin Huggins ...
    A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is being reissued, with a new foreword by acclaimed biographer Arnold Rampersad. As Rampersad notes, "Harlem Renaissance remains an indispensable guide ... Read more

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