African Americans Inwards Paris

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDm71ADGq4159CmWrgQ5i6wESQkkrpwk2MruQ2HAd6eF1V6viGaQf1o5ykg7HfDN5BBBO7e5peCO8BZg8iZwGOAEsIWH_6IZzU-c6gonq-RO5TaESjBcV7XPrJ_EZmkUzJhB9XedZbhVM/s1600-h/blacks+in+paris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDm71ADGq4159CmWrgQ5i6wESQkkrpwk2MruQ2HAd6eF1V6viGaQf1o5ykg7HfDN5BBBO7e5peCO8BZg8iZwGOAEsIWH_6IZzU-c6gonq-RO5TaESjBcV7XPrJ_EZmkUzJhB9XedZbhVM/s200/blacks+in+paris.jpg" width="258" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b>African American Entertainers inwards Paris</b></div> <br /> Since the early on 1800s, the aspiring American creative somebody has been drawn to Paris every bit a sort of creative pilgrimage. The City of Lights has also obtained a particular house inwards the hearts of the African American expatriate inwards search of artistic together with intellectual liberty inwards Europe. <br /> <br /> <b>BLACK AMERICAN ARTISTS, WRITERS AND MUSICIANS</b><br /> <br /> <b><i>The Literati</i></b><br /> <br /> <div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><img alt=" the aspiring American creative somebody has been drawn to Paris every bit a sort of creative pilgrimage African Americans inwards Paris" border="0" height="320" src="http://i34.tinypic.com/1124qq9.gif" width="237" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: African American author James Baldwin sits inwards a Paris window.</span></b></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In Black literature, James Baldwin is good known for his love of Paris together with would arrive at the destination of his life on French soil. Baldwin said that it took him going to Paris to larn what it meant to endure an American.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The author Richard Wright is known to convey frequented the Latin Quarter together with Saint-German-des-Prés of Paris together with may convey best described what the Black expats searched for most: "[a]ll of my life I had been sum of a hunger for a novel agency to live." (from <i>Black Boy</i>).</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Paris inwards 1924 industrial plant life the poet Langston Hughes scraping yesteryear from meager payoff from working inwards ane of Montmartre's most pop nighttime clubs. Notwithstanding, Hughes described his fourth dimension inwards Paris every bit "a dream come upwards true". Countee Cullen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Chester Himes are with the other historical Black literati of Paris.</div> <br /> <b><i>The Entertainers</i></b><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><img alt=" the aspiring American creative somebody has been drawn to Paris every bit a sort of creative pilgrimage African Americans inwards Paris" border="0" height="265" src="http://i36.tinypic.com/fofww4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Ada "Bricktop" Smith (1894–1984)</span></b></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(cir. 1934, photographer Carl Van Vechten)</span></b></div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> The singing together with dancing saloon-owner Ada "Bricktop" Smith operated Chez Bricktop at 66 rue Pigalle that became a beacon of Parisian night-life from 1924 to 1961. Chez Bricktop's broad appeal is noted from its presence inwards the writings of Ernest Hemingway together with T.S. Eliot. The poet Gwendolyn Bennett describes a 1925 eve at Chez Bricktop inwards his diary every bit follows:</div> <br /> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>"Then at 4:15 A.M. to beloved quondam ‘Bricktop’s’ ... extremely crowded this nighttime with our folk. Lottie Gee at that topographic point on her starting fourth dimension nighttime inwards town together with sings for ‘Brick’ her hitting from ‘Shuffle Along’—‘I’m Just Wild About Harry.’ Her phonation is non what it powerfulness convey been together with she had every bit good much champaign [sic] but soundless at that topographic point was something rattling personal together with beloved nigh her singing it together with nosotros colored folks only applauded similar mad." (Diary of Gwendolyn Bennett, entry of 8 Aug. 1925, <a href="http://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg/about/history">Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture</a>, New York.)</i></div> </blockquote> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Also of banking concern complaint with the entertainers, Josephine Baker is in all probability best known. New-Orleans born Sidney Bechet, called the founding manlike somebody nurture of Jazz, also made a postage stamp on the metropolis when he opened the "Chez Sidney" cabaret inwards 1951. </div> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-jxLxz2AgZZ1B9rIneaYVcAQvj-01tZjP1LlTEKRTGVyeegCeYU6Nyd046SvHnm4W1-ke8_1lkJCEPoKsQfjVRrMZphP3S1GPmqRtOXfQI4p8Pi5M2ZHSSMns2Izd5DkLMUI1ILDlX-8/s1600-h/sidney+1950s.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-jxLxz2AgZZ1B9rIneaYVcAQvj-01tZjP1LlTEKRTGVyeegCeYU6Nyd046SvHnm4W1-ke8_1lkJCEPoKsQfjVRrMZphP3S1GPmqRtOXfQI4p8Pi5M2ZHSSMns2Izd5DkLMUI1ILDlX-8/s320/sidney+1950s.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Sidney Bechet with Christian Azzi at the pianoforte (cir. 1950s, Paris)</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpFZk9QslbhrRn8qvi80M4lLDEsASMMZv4I87a1AeM8VVDLeTmys2B4RH2Ix6AZlX-d58mzxO1VZCK46DbO2OA3zbMIiK4TMofwTtvke27pyirRiif1oYf8vVt3hhSDuED85lR73opufk/s1600-h/sidney+bechet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpFZk9QslbhrRn8qvi80M4lLDEsASMMZv4I87a1AeM8VVDLeTmys2B4RH2Ix6AZlX-d58mzxO1VZCK46DbO2OA3zbMIiK4TMofwTtvke27pyirRiif1oYf8vVt3hhSDuED85lR73opufk/s320/sidney+bechet.jpg" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Sidney Bechet (1897–1959)</span></b></div> <br /> <i><b>The Fine Artists</b></i><br /> <br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Montparnasse has historically been of cardinal import inwards the fine arts world, together with a release of African-American creative somebody worked together with lived along its sixth together with 14th arrondissements.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Fine artists Palmer Hayen, Lois Mailou Jones, Archibald J. Motley Jr., Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Augusta Savage, Albert Alexander Smith, together with Hale Woodruff convey all lived together with produced works inwards Paris. In 1996, the paintings of Lois Mailou Jones were featured inwards an fine art exhibition entitled "Paris, the City of Light".</div> <br /> <div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://tinypic.com/" target="_blank"><i><img alt=" the aspiring American creative somebody has been drawn to Paris every bit a sort of creative pilgrimage African Americans inwards Paris" border="0" height="320" src="http://i36.tinypic.com/5bwlrk.gif" width="315" /></i></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Lois Mailou Jones  (b. 11/3/1905 - d. 6/9/1998) </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(picture cir. 1936)</span><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizbFbiMO-CByK65pVVbWRgfCVQYrbhvCzoXSgPYZ52DGdstpMfkt4eRduGxJtsTlAZS9o2FlSEdM73zaNiRK6cEzyziE85NSQSNvLb1AecKyrzE53fOdfqIDhzw7fV_vAZEQ7irJFnNMg/s1600-h/lois+mailou+jones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizbFbiMO-CByK65pVVbWRgfCVQYrbhvCzoXSgPYZ52DGdstpMfkt4eRduGxJtsTlAZS9o2FlSEdM73zaNiRK6cEzyziE85NSQSNvLb1AecKyrzE53fOdfqIDhzw7fV_vAZEQ7irJFnNMg/s320/lois+mailou+jones.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;">Photo: Lois Mailous Jones inwards her studio.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> <div> </div> <i><b>Black Paris' Historic Haunts</b></i><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8NJ4zK6daoJzwxdfMIe-JbnLJpbjYDDglXiI5Y7jbMDqWAJloR9-Pe8Rm8YlWCq4Syg4D5WztJ4qDlLxIrSrkJ0KU3Rys87ccu7Xhe6BIQo7KNhG3XHgOD1wS0aVNv_pMsdF3g_QLfUs/s1600-h/hell+fighters.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ct="true" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8NJ4zK6daoJzwxdfMIe-JbnLJpbjYDDglXiI5Y7jbMDqWAJloR9-Pe8Rm8YlWCq4Syg4D5WztJ4qDlLxIrSrkJ0KU3Rys87ccu7Xhe6BIQo7KNhG3XHgOD1wS0aVNv_pMsdF3g_QLfUs/s200/hell+fighters.bmp" width="400" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Photo: The 369th Infantry Regiment ("Harlem Hellfighters") </b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>(cir. Dec 27, 1917)</b></span> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> For the historical buffs, the Champs Elysees volition resound every bit the house where the "Harlem Hellfighters" received a hero's welcome later World War I (WWI). The Harlem Hellfighters were the starting fourth dimension all-black U.S. combat unit of measurement to endure shipped overseas during WWI.<br /> <br /> On a to a greater extent than controversial note, a Paris street marking volition right away the traveler to the residence where the 1787 rendezvous betwixt the U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings is reported to convey occurred. This Paris rendezvous resulted inwards the nascency of a tiddler betwixt Jefferson together with Hemings that would add together African-lineage to the Jefferson household unit of measurement tree.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> There are a growing release of Black Paris tours. H5N1 lilliputian reading, however, volition brand move to Paris a to a greater extent than memorable experience. In perusing the ample literature you lot may endure inspired to search out the bistros together with cafes where your favorite Black author sipped coffee, or to study the landscape that inspired ane of the many Lois Mailou Jones' Paris landscapes. </div> <div> </div> <br /> <i>For Further Reading:</i><br /> <ul> <li><i>Giovanni's Room, yesteryear James Baldwin (Delta)</i></li> <li><i>Black Girl inwards Paris, yesteryear Shay Youngblood (Riverhead)</i></li> <li><i>Harlem inwards Montmartre: H5N1 Paris Jazz Story Between the Great Wars, yesteryear William A. Shack (George Gund Foundation Book inwards African American Studies)</i></li> <li><i>New Negro Artists inwards Paris: African American Painters together with Sculptors inwards the City of Light, 1922-1934, yesteryear Teresa Leininger-Miller (Rutgers University Press)</i></li> </ul> </div>

African Americans Inwards Paris

African American Entertainers inwards Paris Since the early on 1800s, the aspiring American creative somebody has been drawn to Paris every bit a sort of creative pilgrimage. The City of Lights h…

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Early Life Of Lewis Latimer: Boy Of Escaped African Slaves Becomes Electrical Lighting Innovator

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSJcVdlNV0zF7Pmo-BPSf2K4bdaMUcqjx2lyVQx62BWMusQWHSS7lC0lRGxrPB8EgThGnNRTdH8eSfdPFcfrfGXosmt4ImH-QsENNeXIKFju93HEi2M8vGv4dTdt77meWRwrUfeC7Y6Mg/s1600/Lewis+Houston+Latimer+African+American+Scientist+Engineering+STEM+History.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSJcVdlNV0zF7Pmo-BPSf2K4bdaMUcqjx2lyVQx62BWMusQWHSS7lC0lRGxrPB8EgThGnNRTdH8eSfdPFcfrfGXosmt4ImH-QsENNeXIKFju93HEi2M8vGv4dTdt77meWRwrUfeC7Y6Mg/s400/Lewis+Houston+Latimer+African+American+Scientist+Engineering+STEM+History.jpg" width="228" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Photo: Lewis Howard Latimer</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Lewis Howard Latimer's floor begins earlier he was born, but I approximate that may hold out said most all of our stories. The years leading upward to Lewis' nascency were specially interesting because his parents George together with Rebecca Latimer made a theater conclusion to escape Virginia's slavery. According to MD Winifred Latimer Norman, Lewis' granddaughter, the family's papers recount the determination of his woman nurture Rebecca to "not hold out the woman nurture of a slave."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <b>Lewis Latimer's Parents Escape Slavery</b></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In 1842, Rebecca Latimer devised a really peculiar project design to escape slavery. She and her married adult man George would escape slavery past times his passing equally White together with acting equally his to a greater extent than hued wife's master. They did larn out Norfolk, Virginia accompanied equally original together with servant. They headed for Baltimore together with continued to Boston, Massachusetts. This is the menage unit of measurement history Lewis Latimer was born into on September 4, 1848, the youngest of iv children, inward Chelsea, Massachusetts. </div> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> When the Latimer's arrived inward Boston, George was forthwith recognized. He was imprisoned equally a fugitive slave. Rebecca had escaped capture. George's possessor refused to surrender his efforts to accept him returned to Norfolk, Virginia equally his personal property. Fortunately, the Latimers arrived inward a Boston that had a potent slavery abolition movement brewing. Bostonians did non similar the fact that their revenue enhancement dollars were existence used to enforce the fugitive slave law. George Latimer's example became a slavery abolitionist cause. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> William Lloyd Garrison publicized the example inward his abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. It included a missive of the alphabet from Frederick Douglass regarding the community's efforts to secure George Latimer's freedom. After a month's remain inward jail, Black abolitionist purchased his freedom from his possessor for $400.00. Rebecca remained a fugitive, coming inward together with out of menage unit of measurement life equally she could. According to the menage unit of measurement records, Rebecca worked at jobs that allowed her protection from detection inward spaces were the fugitive slave police push clit was yet enforced.  Eventually, George Latimer's high profile case garnered the signature of 65,000 Massachusetts citizens that led to the passage of a Earth police push clit that "all judges, justices of the peace, together with officers of the commonwealth, are forbidden, nether heavy penalties, to help or human activity inward whatever agency inward the arrest, detention, or delivery of whatever soul claimed equally a fugitive slave."</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2JOZ2XkHCEz41daVulKeZ0-d1lpWNNmwZgKTDPYk6bGlLYHRoqURxeiueOykHEsQCrDCwKPClOTwUFG6cYl2-ZWYvcRXecV-jDVXWRq-6jbZKs5hj7RgGInTzb8iQP-V0hp84xHIwEjU/s1600/Lewis+Houston+Latimer+Black+in+Science+STEM+Black+History.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2JOZ2XkHCEz41daVulKeZ0-d1lpWNNmwZgKTDPYk6bGlLYHRoqURxeiueOykHEsQCrDCwKPClOTwUFG6cYl2-ZWYvcRXecV-jDVXWRq-6jbZKs5hj7RgGInTzb8iQP-V0hp84xHIwEjU/s400/Lewis+Houston+Latimer+Black+in+Science+STEM+Black+History.jpg" width="275" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lewis Latimer Contributions to Electric Lighting</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In low-cal of his family's history, it is no surprise that the immature Lewis would desire to participate inward the U.S. Civil War. In 1864, at the historic menstruum xvi years, Lewis lied most his historic menstruum together with enlisted inward the Union Navy. He would serve aboard the USS Massasoit together with saw armed services activeness on the James River inward Virginia close the plantations where his parents had been enslaved. </div> <br /> <b>Lewis Latimer Returns to Boston</b><br /> <br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"> After the U.S. Civil War ended, Lewis returned to Boston. He secured a labor equally an office assistant inward the patent police push clit theater of Crosby together with Gould. Here, he became fascinated amongst the mechanical drawings the draftsmen prepared for the U.S. Patent Office. Lewis taught himself mechanical drawing. Soon, he was hired at the firm as a patent draftsman. He stayed amongst the patent firm for twelve years together with became its main draftsman. He believed, equally many during that time, that patenting inventions was the agency to wealth. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> In Boston, Lewis also met Alexander Graham Bell. According to his journal, he made the drawings for Bell's kickoff patent application for the telephone. In 1879, Lewis left Boston amongst Mary, his novel bride, together with moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut -- a kind of silicon valley of applied scientific discipline innovation at its time. In 1881, Lewis' patent for the "Incandescent Electric Light Bulb amongst Carbon Filament" was sold to the U.S.A. Electric Company. In 1882, Lewis patented a procedure for efficiently manufacturing the carbon filament, equally good as developed the at nowadays famous threaded socket for his improved bulb. In 1890, Lewis wrote the first mass on electrical lighting, "Incandescent Electric Lighting". He went on to acquaint together with was a major contributor to the international installation of world electrical lights. Lewis contributed to world lightings inward Philadelphia, New York, Montreal, together with London.</div> </div>

Early Life Of Lewis Latimer: Boy Of Escaped African Slaves Becomes Electrical Lighting Innovator

Photo: Lewis Howard Latimer Lewis Howard Latimer's floor begins earlier he was born, but I approximate that may hold out said most all of our stories. The years leading upward to Lewis' nascency …

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