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This item is an advertisement page published in the advertiser section of The Crisis magazine. This issue was published in February of 1927, it is The Crisis volume 33, number 4. This specific issue was published towards the middle of the Harlem Renaissance as the Harlem Renaissance continued through the mid 1930s. In this advertisement section there are 5 postings from colleges and universities. These colleges and universities now have courses and curriculums closer to what we have today, moving away from the original training and industrial schools. The posting from Virginia Union University states that it offers curriculum in departments such as theological, teachers' college, premedical, law, and commercial. The North Carolina College for Negroes posting includes information about courses in liberal arts, science, commerce, and music. This shows a clear change in universities and colleges from before the Harlem Renaissance to now at the middle of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Savage created the Savage Studio of Arts and crafts, which later became the Harlem Community Art Center.
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This item is an advertisement page published in the advertiser section of The Crisis magazine. This specific issue was published in March of 1921, The Crisis volume 21, number 5. This specific issue was published during the time of the Harlem Renaissance which began approximately around 1920. This specific page includes four training school and university advertisements geared towards African American youth, some for men and woman and others only for men. The top advertisement from the National Training School in Durham, North Carolina states that graduates are already “filling many responsible positions, thus demonstrating the aim of the school to train men and women for useful citizenship.” This connects to the advertisement from the Trustees of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute as they both explain the influence that the schools have on graduates as citizens and how they further impact the community. This document also shows the types of schools that are being created during this time period and what type of goals they have for their graduates.
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This item is an advertisement page published in the advertiser section of The Crisis magazine. This specific issue was published in March of 1921, The Crisis volume 21, number 5. This specific issue was published during the time of the Harlem Renaissance which began approximately around 1920. This specific page includes four training school and university advertisements geared towards African American youth, some for men and woman and others only for men. The top advertisement from the National Training School in Durham, North Carolina states that graduates are already “filling many responsible positions, thus demonstrating the aim of the school to train men and women for useful citizenship.” This connects to the advertisement from the Trustees of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute as they both explain the influence that the schools have on graduates as citizens and how they further impact the community. This document also shows the types of schools that are being created during this time period and what type of goals they have for their graduates.
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This item is an advertisement page published in the advertiser section of The Crisis magazine. This specific issue was published in March of 1921, The Crisis volume 21, number 5. This specific issue was published during the time of the Harlem Renaissance which began approximately around 1920. This specific page includes four training school and university advertisements geared towards African American youth, some for men and woman and others only for men. The top advertisement from the National Training School in Durham, North Carolina states that graduates are already “filling many responsible positions, thus demonstrating the aim of the school to train men and women for useful citizenship.” This connects to the advertisement from the Trustees of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute as they both explain the influence that the schools have on graduates as citizens and how they further impact the community. This document also shows the types of schools that are being created during this time period and what type of goals they have for their graduates.
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Augusta Savage was born on February 29, 1892 in Florida and died in March of 1962. She later moved to New York. Savage was an African American woman, art teacher and advocate for African Americans in the arts. She was an artist herself, specifically a ceramicist, and began her career as a teen, teaching sculpting in high school. She then went on to attend Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. She was up against 142 male applicants and was still accepted, and then graduated a year early. Other notable life accomplishments include opening her own studio, Savage Studio of Arts and Crafts, in 1934, which later became the Harlem Community Art Center. Now that we are in the midst of the Harlem Renaissance, we see a big difference between Savage and Davidson. Savage seemed to be more accepted and seen as more than just a woman who only fulfilled “womanly” duties, unlike Davidson. Savage was also an artist, educator, and activist. Her work was documented and validated many times, such as when she was still accepted to college when her overwhelmingly large number of male competitors were also a factor, as well as when she created her own studio that did so well that it became the Harlem Community Art Center.
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Olivia Davidson was born June 11, 1854 and died on May 9, 1889. She was an African American teacher and wife to Booker T. Washington. She graduated from the Framingham State Normal School and became a teacher. Additionally, she founded the Tuskegee Normal School with her husband as well. However, after all of her life accomplishments, when she died, the only thing inscribed on her gravestone commemorating her was “wife of Booker T. Washington”. Not “teacher”, “student”, “educator”, or even “advocate”. Davidson’s life consisted of much more than just being Washington’s wife. However, this time period is before the Harlem Renaissance. Many people did not see African American women as much more than mothers and wives that fulfilled domestic duties. This sets the stage, in a way, for all female African American educators who came after her. These artifacts show that while women were not particularly valued or seen for more than the domestic roles of “mother” and “wife”, that women, African American women in particular, were still slowly but surely advancing in society.
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A picture of Gertrude "MaRainey" Pridgett from the 1920s. She was an American Blues singer known as the "Mother of Blues" and she influenced many new early blues recording artists.
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Plays by: Langston Hughes, N.K Smith, Felix Fair, Jean Jacques Bernard, and J. Niggli
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Plays by: Langston Hughes, N.K Smith, Felix Fair, Jean Jacques Bernard, and J. Niggli
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Plays by: Langston Hughes, N.K Smith, Felix Fair, Jean Jacques Bernard, and J. Niggli
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Augusta Savage, artist and teacher, with her sculpture "Realization", 1938
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An advertisement for the American comedy/short film "Wedding Blues"
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stuff for Brinkmans class
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Ethel Waters on Black Swan Records Advertisement
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Photo of Harry Pace the first Black man to start and own a record label in America
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From the Broadway musical "The Night Boat"
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This depicts the gravestone of Olivia Davidson. It written on there that she was the wife of Booker T. Washington, her birth and death date, as well as the Framingham Normal School motto, "live to the truth".
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Langston Hughes Syllabus
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Plays by: Langston Hughes, N.K Smith, Felix Fair, Jean Jacques Bernard, and J. Niggli
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This is the obituary of Olivia Davidson. She died on May 9, 1889. It contains a short description of her life and what she accomplished. She graduated from the Framingham State Normal School, became a teacher in Tennessee, and started the Tuskegee Normal School with her husband, Booker T. Washington.
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This is a Reprint of the original issue of fire being (Vol. 1) and this showcases many different authors, poets, and artists. Some Big names are Charles S. Johnson, Countee P. Cullen, Aaron Douglas, Helene Johnson, Richard Bruce, Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston, Waring Cuney, Arna Bontemps, Edward Silvera, Langston Hughes, and more Ect.
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In this letter, Davidson reveals she is working with her husband, the principal, at Tuskegee Normal School in Alabama. She writes to her friend from the same graduating class as her only 3 months later, detailing how the schools' students are below grade level and they have very little funding.
