Primary Sources

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  Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston

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  Drafts of Langston Hughes’s poem “Ballad of Booker T.”

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  Charleston rag

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  Portrait of Louis Armstrong

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  Portrait of Bessie Smith

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  WPA Federal Theatre presents “The case of Philip Lawrence”

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  Cayton’s weekly. (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, April 19, 1919

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  Portrait of James Weldon Johnson

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  Cayton's weekly. (Seattle, Wash.) 1916-1921, May 31, 1919

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  The Tulsa star. (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-19??, October 09, 1920

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  Woofing

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  Halimuhfack

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  Portrait of Langston Hughes

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  The Negro Speaks of Rivers

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  New-York tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, July 03, 1921

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  New-York tribune. (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, July 23, 1922

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  Marian Anderson mural dedicated...

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  The Whites Invade Harlem

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