*This date is dedicated to African-American Dance. Africans brought their dances to North and South America, and the Caribbean Islands as slave...
Category: Theatre/the Arts
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Tue, 1500-03-13
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Mon, 1600-10-23
On this date, the Registry examines African American art—-painting, carving, graphic arts, and crafts created by people of African descent in the...
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Mon, 1750-03-16
*The birth of Scipio Moorhead around 1750 is celebrated on this date. He was a Black portrait engraver.
Moorhead was a slave of the...
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Sat, 1783-07-19
The birth of Richard Potter in 1783 is celebrated on this date. He was a magician, one of the first Black illusionist in America.
Potter...
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Tue, 1785-04-26
*John Audubon was born on this date in 1785. He was a Black French American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He painted, cataloged, and...
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Thu, 1789-01-29
*The birth of Saartjie Baartman in 1789 is celebrated on this date. She was a South African entertainer and objectified Black woman.
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Fri, 1807-07-24
This date commemorates the birth of Ira Frederick Aldridge in 1807. He was a Black actor, considered one of the greatest interpreters of his day...
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Fri, 1808-05-20
*Thomas Dartmouth Rice was born on this date in1808. He was a White entertainer and playwright who popularized the Jim Crow character in...
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Tue, 1821-05-29
*The origin of the African Grove Theater in 1821 is celebrated on this date.
Based in Manhattan, in its seven years of existence the...
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Sun, 1821-08-26
The birth of Robert S. Duncanson in 1821 is celebrated on this date. He was a Black artist.
From Seneca, New York, his parents were...
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Thu, 1826-11-02
This date celebrates the birth of Edward Bannister, a Black artist born in 1826.
Edward Mitchell Bannister was the first of two sons born...
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Fri, 1829-11-20
The birth of Edmund Dédé in 1829 is celebrated on this date. He was an African American violinist and composer.
The son of free Black...
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Mon, 1835-06-15
On this date, we recall the birth of Adah Menkens in 1835. She was a Black actress and poet of international renown in the mid-19th century....
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Sun, 1837-10-29
Harriet Powers was born on this date in 1837. She was a Black artist who worked in textile needlework.
Born a slave in Athens, GA, she...
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Mon, 1841-02-22
*On this date in 1841, Grafton Tyler Brown was born. He was an African American lithographer and painter.
Born of free ancestry in...
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Fri, 1843-07-14
Edmonia Lewis was born on this date in the mid-nineteenth century, a pioneering Black artist believed to be the first woman sculptor of African...
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Tue, 1851-02-04
*Ella Sheppard was born on this date in 1851. She was a Black musician, vocalist, and educator.
From Nashville, Tennessee her father,...
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Fri, 1854-04-14
*The birth of Ella Robinson Madison is celebrated on this date in 1854. She was an African American actress and singer.
Born in...
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Sun, 1855-04-22
Georgia Gordon Taylor’s birth in 1855 is celebrated on this date. She was an African American vocalist.
From Nashville, Tennessee, she...
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Tue, 1859-06-21
Henry Ossawa Tanner was born on this date in 1859. He was a Black painter known for his paintings of everyday African-American life and for his...
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