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On July 28, 1917, near the site where Trump Tower now sits, at Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, 10,000 plus men, women and children marched in strong, silent formation.
Rudolph Dunbar (1899-1988) was a Guyanese clarinetist, music conductor, photojournalist, editor and music teacher. Dunbar began his career as a clarinetist while a teenager in the British Guiana Militia band.
From the Yale Univeristy Press: “A fascinating history of Chicago’s innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
Images of slave ships packed with human cargo played an important role in abolitionist efforts to eradicate the international slave trade and end the practice of slavery in the United States.
Yale University’s Beinecke Library is displaying Langston Hughes’s collection of rent party cards, which advertised fundraising gatherings in an era of discriminatory Harlem rent.
