“Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life In Harlem” by Wallace Thurman and William Jourdin Rapp is produced at the Apollo Theater
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Set just after the American Civil War in the south, it stars Lionel Barrymore as a retired Confederate colonel, Shirley Temple as his chipper, precocious grand daughter, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson as a tap dancing butler and Hattie McDaniel as a boisterous maid.
The Harlem Race Riot of 1935, sparked by a teenager’s theft and unsubstantiated (and untrue) rumors of his death by…
Set at the beginning of the Civil War, the film begins at Temple’s character’s sixth birthday party, where Bill Robinson plays a slave who dances for the guests’ entertainment at the beginning of the film.
While the book cements Hurston’s place in American literary history, it also marks an end to the official output of the Renaissance.
Hughes’ “The Big Sea,” an Autobiography starting from his earliest memories til the age of 28, is released. Review from August 25th of that year mentions Hughes’ discovery by Vachel Luindsay, but makes no mention of WEB Du Bois. The Crisis– the NAACP’s literary magazine that Du Bois edited, is mentioned twice.