Items · DGHM 110 S25 DTA Project

Langston Hughes Syllabus

Plays by: Langston Hughes, N.K Smith, Felix Fair, Jean Jacques Bernard, and J. Niggli

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.

Fire: Devoted to younger negro artists (Reprint)

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.

Letter from Olivia Davidson to Mary Jewett, 1881

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.

The History of Black Swan Records

The first African American owned and operated Record label in Harlem and in the USA

Blues Fantasy

The poem "Blues Fantasy" by Langston Hughes

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The Shroud of Color

Poem

Fuller in her attic studio

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I, Too

Poem

Harlem Wine

Poem

Ethel Waters and the Jazz Masters

Rich resources

Framingham State Normal School Graduation Pamphlet, 1881

Olivia Davidson was a student at and graduated from the Framingham State Normal School in 1881. This is a pamphlet inviting people to the graduation which also details how Davidson presented an essay titles "Work among the Freedmen" at her graduation as well.