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[teacherartexchange] NY Times Article "Black History, Alive in Washington
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/16/arts/design/16blac.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
In 1957 Washington officially became the country’s first city where blacks were the majority. But by then, artists, writers and performers of African descent had been flourishing there for a century and a half or more. Seeking out their traces makes for a lively city tour, and one very much of the moment as an African-American first family makes Washington its home.
But before the tour, a shout-out of names you’ll be looking for: Alma Thomas, Frederick Douglass, Duke Ellington , Elizabeth Catlett, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes , Sweet Daddy Grace, Lois Mailou Jones and Marian Anderson, not to mention Marvin Gaye and the godfather of Go-go — the D.C. version of funk — Chuck Brown. All long-term or short-term Washingtonians; all in spirit or person still here.
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