Drop Me Off in Harlem

On stage and screen, black actors—cast in serious roles for the first time—broke racial barriers and transcended stereotypes.

Charles Gilpin Paul Robeson Ethel Waters Evelyn Preer Adelaide Hall

Wallace Thurman Langston Hughes Countee Cullen J Weldon Johnson Claude McKay Zora Neale Hurston

Bessie Smith Duke Ellington Chick Webb Fats Waller Cab Calloway Fletcher Henderson Eubie Blake J P Johnson Wm Grant Still

Aaron Douglas Palmer Hayden Oscar Micheaux Selma Burke Augusta Savage James VanDerZeeVan der Zee

George Snowden Bill Robinson Herbert White Earl Tucker Florence Mills

C.S. Johnson W.E.B. DuBois Alain Locke A'lelia Walker Charlotte Mason Harmon Foundation Marcus Garvey Carl Van Vechten



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