Generations in Black and white : photographs /

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964,

Generations in Black and white : photographs / by Carl Van Vechten from the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection ; edited by Rudolph P. Byrd. - Athens : University of Georgia Press, (c)1993. - 1 online resource (xxvii, 172 pages) : illustrations, portraits.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Eighty-three photographs presenting W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Bessie Smith, Ruby Dee, Lena Horne, James Baldwin, and others, demonstrate Van Vechten's intent to enlighten white America about black culture.



9780820346991


Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964 --Photograph collections.
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964.


African Americans--Portraits.
African Americans--Biography.
Photograph collections--Connecticut--New Haven.


Electronic Books.

E185 / .G464 1993