by Carla Kaplan
1920s postcard “A Darkey’s Prayer”: Langston Hughes Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
1920s mammy postcard: Langston Hughes Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Verso of mammy postcard, with handwritten note addressed to Langston Hughes from Charlotte Osgood Mason: Langston Hughes Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Nancy Cunard, 1926: Photographed by Man Ray. © Artists Rights Society/The Man Ray Trust.
Cover of Henry Music, published by Hours Press, 1930: Courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center Book Collection, University of Texas at Austin.
Life magazine, suntanning-craze cover, “The Girl Who Gave Him the Cold Shoulder”: Illustrated by John Held, Jr. Cover of Life magazine, circa 1923. Cabinet of American Illustration, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
In-Text Illustrations
“A White Girl’s Prayer,” by Edna Margaret Johnson in “The Poet’s Page,” from The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races. February 1931: Reprinted courtesy of the Crisis Publishing Co., Inc., the publisher of the magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Fania Marinoff in Harlem: Photographed by Carl Van Vechten. Courtesy of the Van Vechten Trust and the James Weldon Johnson Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
“Harlem After Dark,” cartoon: Courtesy of the George S. Schuyler Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library.
Amy Spingarn: Amy Spingarn at Troutbeck, Amenia, New York, date unknown. Photographer unknown.
Opportunity awards dinner invitation, May 1, 1925: Illustrated by Winold Reiss. Courtesy of the Reiss Partnership/Reiss Archives.
“A Night-Club Map of Harlem,” ink drawing: illustrated by E. Simms Campbell.
Harlem street scene: intersection of Lenox Avenue and West 135th Street, circa 1920s–’30s. Photographer unknown. Corbis Images.
Newspaper composograph of Alice Jones Rhinelander at her 1925 trial, originally published in the New York Evening Graphic: Composite photograph by Harry Grogin and Emile A. Gavreau.
Etta Duryea, circa 1910: Photographed by Elmer Chickering. Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Print Department.
Etta Duryea and Jack Johnson, circa 1910: Photographed by Elmer Chickering. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Miguel Covarrubias cartoon, caricature of Carl Van Vechten, Fania Marinoff, and Taylor Gordon: Ink wash and ink brush over graphite underdrawing by Miguel Covarrubias. © María Elena Rico Covarrubias.
Libby Holman and Gerald Cook, circa 1940s: Photographed by Marcus Blechman. Hedgerow Theater Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.
Harlem street scene, 422–424 Lenox Avenue: Photographed by Berenice Abbott for the Federal Art Project, June 1938. Photography Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Blanche Knopf in drag: Photographed by Nickolas Muray. Courtesy of George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film, © Nickolas Muray Photo Archives.
Libby Holman, date unknown: Photograph by Marcus Blechman. Hedgerow Theater Collection, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.
Close-up of the program from the NAACP benefit gala at the Forrest Theatre, Sunday, December 8, 1929: Programs & Playbills Collection, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books Division, NAACP Papers, Library of Congress.
Mary White Ovington, circa 1890–1900: Photographed by Charles J. Dampf Studios. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Helen Lee Worthing and Dr. Nelson, December 1929: International Newsreel. Photographer unknown.
Nancy Cunard, dancing with unidentified man: Date and photographer unknown.
Lillian Wood and the Morristown College faculty: Courtesy of Knoxville College Library Archives.
The Franklin sisters: Author’s photograph. Used by permission of Lady Bee Coleman and Violet Franklin (Odessa Franklin, deceased).
Morristown College memorial bust: author’s photograph.
Morristown College for sale: author’s photograph.
The Schuyler family at home, circa 1944–1945: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Prints and Photographs Division, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
The Cogdell family home in Granbury, Texas: Date and photographer unknown. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, Philippa Schuyler Papers, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Josephine Cogdell and the family cook: Date and photographer unknown. Photograph courtesy of Cody Martin.
Josephine Cogdell as a pinup girl: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, Philippa Schuyler Papers, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
John Garth, self-portrait: date unknown.
Josephine Cogdell as an artist’s model: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, Philippa Schuyler Papers, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Josephine Cogdell Schuyler: Photographer and date unknown. The George S. Schuyler Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library.
Josephine Cogdell Schuyler on a Harlem rooftop: Photographer unknown. Courtesy of the Juliff family.
Ernestine Rose, circa 1898: Photographer unknown. Courtesy of the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton, New York.
The Schuylers at home, reading: Photograph by Joe Covello, date unknown. Courtesy of Black Star Publishing Co., and the Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Philippa Schuyler Papers, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Josephine Cogdell Schuyler’s scrapbook: Philippa Schuyler Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library.
Josephine Cogdell Schuyler, 1948: Photographed by Carl Van Vechten. Courtesy of the Van Vechten Trust and the James Weldon Johnson Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cover of Opportunity, January 1925: Illustrated by Winold Reiss. Courtesy of the Reiss Partnership/Reiss Archives.
Detail of program for Annie Nathan Meyer’s Black Souls: Courtesy of the Barnard College Archives.
Annie Nathan Meyer, circa 1932: Photographer unknown. Courtesy of the Barnard College Archives.
Program for Black Souls: Courtesy of the Barnard College Archives.
Charlotte Osgood Mason: Photographer unknown. Langston Hughes Papers, Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Charlotte Osgood Mason: Collection of Mrs. Edmund Randolph Biddle and Stephen G. Biddle, Quakertown, Pennsylvania. Courtesy of Mrs. Edmund Randolph Biddle and Stephen G. Biddle.
Cudjo Lewis: Courtesy of the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, McCall Library, University of South Alabama.
Miguel Covarrubias cartoon: Ink wash and ink brush over graphite underdrawing by Miguel Covarrubias. © María Elena Rico Covarrubias.
Nancy Cunard, holding Negro: Date and photographer unknown. Nancy Cunard Collection, Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin.
Fannie Hurst at her desk: Date and photographer unknown. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theatre Division, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Fannie Hurst’s apartment: Date and photographer unknown. Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections, Brandeis University, and the Department of Special Collections, Manuscript Division, Washington University Libraries, Washington University in St. Louis.
Fannie Hurst, circa 1931: Photographer unknown. Library of Congre
ss, Prints and Photographs Division.
Nancy Cunard, [1920–1924]: Photographer unknown. Nancy Cunard Collection, Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin.
Nancy Cunard in Harlem, with John Banting and Taylor Gordon, 1932: Photographer unknown. © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis.
Nevill Holt, from Nancy Cunard’s scrapbooks: Nancy Cunard Collection, Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin.
Nancy Cunard, 1925: Photographed by Curtis Moffat. © Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Nancy Cunard, with a mask from Sierra Leone: Nancy Cunard Collection, Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin.
Nancy Cunard: Solarized photograph by Barbara Ker-Seymer. Photography Collection, Literary File, Harry Ransom Center, the University of Texas at Austin.
Ruby Bates and the Scottsboro mothers, with Richard Moore, 1934: Photographer unknown. © AP/Wide World.
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