The Arna Bontemps African American Museum was a museum in the United States city of Alexandria, Louisiana. The museum was housed in the restored home that was the birthplace of the poet Arna Bontemps, renowned as one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance.[1]
The museum and cultural center was located at 1327 3rd Street, and was featured on the Louisiana African American Heritage Trail. It opened in 1992.[2]
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to Bontemps, he overall found the work "cautious" with "nothing to disturb the white or Negro reading publics." The contributions approach to African-American...
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tell me where to eat and where to sleep? Who are you America but Me? — Margaret Walker Arna Bontemps and Langston Hughes co-wrote a musical titled Jubilee:...
The Book of Negro Folklore of 1958, edited by Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps. Ralph Ellison's short story Flying Home was written in 1967. It is mentioned...
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Girls Clubs of America, and Children's Defense Fund. In 2016, he donated $2.5 million to the Smithsonian National Museum of AfricanAmerican History and...
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Seeks to Rejuvenate Anacostia Museum". Crisis: 37–39. Retrieved April 22, 2012. Academy of American Poets. "About Arna Bontemps". poets.org. Retrieved June...
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition (1911) Bontemps on Glassmaking: the Guide du Verrier of Georges Bontemps, translated by Michael Cable (2008). Society...
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