Thirty years ago, when the childhood home of author and Alexandria native Arna Bontemps was threatened with demolition, a group of concerned citizens organized to rescue it. Now that the structure and ...

"This is my first time being here," said Jacqueline Bontemps, granddaughter of Arna Wendell Bontemps, the renowned African-American Harlem Renaissance author and poet who was born in Alexandria in ...

In MutualArt’s artist press archive, Arna Bontemps is featured in The Dazzling Harlem Renaissance That Flowered Nearly a Century Ago Celebrated in Ohio, a piece from The Washington Post in November ...

For the month of February, we highlight contributions African Americans have made to society. Arna Bontemps was a poet, novelist, historian, anthologist and archivist, who enriched and preserved black ...

James Weldon Johnson : O black and unknown bards ; Go down death (a funeral sermon) -- Paul Laurence Dunbar : Dawn ; Compensation ; The debt ; Life ; My sort o' man ; The party ; A song ; Sympathy ; ...

You can read this quote from Arna Bontemps, which appeared in his book Black Thunder (1936), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read how the quote is referenced here. Suggested Reading Here’s ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The Harmon Foundation, a ...