Look who came to dinner: The Harlem Renaissance [100 years ago today]
Veronica Chambers and Michelle May-Curry, The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance, NYTimes, March 21, 2024.
On March 21, 1924, Jessie Fauset sat inside the Civic Club in downtown Manhattan, wondering how the party for her debut novel had been commandeered.
The celebration around her was originally intended to honor that book, “There Is Confusion.” But Charles S. Johnson and Alain Locke thought the dinner could serve a larger purpose. What if the two Black academic titans invited the best and brightest of the Harlem creative and political scene? What if, ...