Top of page
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Jelly Roll Morton's 1938 concerts at the Library's Coolidge auditorium became a landmark jazz recording and the basis for his biography, "Mister Jelly Roll."
Posted in: African American History, LCM, Music
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library’s acclaimed Crime Classic series is launching a new edition of “The Conjure-Man Dies” this month, a staple of the Harlem Renaissance and the most important work of long-overlooked novelist Rudolph Fisher. First published in 1932, the book was the first full-length mystery novel to feature an all-Black cast of characters, including detectives, suspects and victims.
Posted in: African American History, Books, Library Work and Employees, Theater, Writers