a branch of the New York Public Library, it opened in 1905 and became a cultural epi-center of the Harlem Renaissance. It hosted the first exhibition of African American art in Harlem, and was the only branch to employ blacks in the 1920s.
a branch of the New York Public Library, it opened in 1905 and became a cultural epi-center of the Harlem Renaissance. It hosted the first exhibition of African American art in Harlem, and was the only branch to employ blacks in the 1920s.