Brief History of Harlem: 1900-2012
TRAILBLAZING PEOPLE, LANDMARK PLACES AND SIGNIFICANT EVENTS
1900 -1939 (detail)
harlem is... MUSIC... THEATER... DANCE... THE GOSPEL TRADITION...
CELEBRATING THE LIVING HISTORY OF HARLEM
This multi-part series celebrates the legendary people, places and institutions that helped shape the cultural history of Harlem. Each exhibition illuminates an aspect of Harlem’s character and culture, weaving together research, interviews and creative writing by local students with archival and contemporary elements.
This award-winning multi-part series of exhibitions celebrating Harlem’s music, theater, and dance has toured citywide to over 30 locations from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to Federal Hall National Memorial.
Photographic images, poetry, and prose, tell the story of African American Dance in Harlem
Want to find out
who’s keeping Black theater alive
Want to find the first Black Shakespearean actor in the United States?
Explores Harlem’s unrivaled musical traditions as it traces this rich legacy
Images, history and reflections on the role of faith institutions in Harlem.
Harlem Hospital Mural Collection
RESPECTING THE PAST, EMBRACING THE FUTURE
