Sunday, May 32:00 pm
McManus Room
Cynthia E. Russett Ph.D., Larned Professor of History at Yale University, will examine the decade that saw an astonishing outpouring of black art, poetry, fiction, drama, and music. Harlem, a mecca for African-Americans in the early years of the 20th century, had long been a cultural center for white artists, writers, and intellectuals, and African-Americans saw Harlem as a kind of safe haven. The 1920s were the years when, as historian David Levering Lewis has written, "Harlem was in vogue."
