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Schomburg Center for Research
in Black Culture
a main cultural force from the Harlem
Renaissance through the Great Depression that sponsored
exhibitions, performances, and lectures to heighten awareness of
the Harlem community’s ancestral heritage. The center, located
at the Countee Cullen branch of the New York Public Library at 135th
Street, is named after Arthur Schomburg, whose collection formed
the basis for what is now the most extensive repository of documents
and texts on black studies in the nation. |
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self-portrait (n)
a portrait of oneself done by oneself |
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tom-tom (n)
a drum of indefinite pitch commonly played with the hands; a dull
repetitious drumbeat or similar sound |
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Underground Railroad
(n)
an elaborate secret network of safe houses organized to help fugitive
slaves escape to Canada or other places of safety before the Emancipation
Proclamation in 1863 |
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West (n)
the Western part of the world, primarily Europe and America, as
distinguished from the East, or the Orient |
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WPA/FAP
Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project: a relief program
for artists created in 1935 under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The WPA also included the Federal Theater Project, the Federal Writer’s
Project, and the Federal Music Project, all of which offered employment
to critics, actors, writers and musicians. All of these programs
ended in 1943. |
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zoology (n)
the branch of biology dealing with animals |
