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By Mark Alden Branch ’86 | 8:14am February 01 2022

Black History Month begins today! The Beinecke Library has 14 color portraits of Black cultural figures by Carl Van Vechten from its James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection on display in its windows. Shown here, left to right: Langston Hughes, Margaret Bonds, James Baldwin, Marian Anderson, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale Hurston. More here.

Filed under Black History Month, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Carl Van Vechten
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