*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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Wed, 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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Fri, 1807-07-24
This date commemorates the birth of Ira Frederick Aldridge in 1807. He was an African-American actor, considered one of the greatest interpreters...
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Fri, 1808-05-20
*Thomas Dartmouth Rice was born on this date in1808. He was a white entertainer...
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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 an African-American artist.
From Seneca, New York, his...
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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 pioneer African-American artist believed to be the first woman sculptor of...
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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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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 an African-American painter known for his paintings of everyday African-American life...
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Thu, 1863-11-12
On this date we recall the birth of William Edmondson in 1863. He was a black sculptor and the first black artist to achieve a one-man exhibition...
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Sat, 1864-04-16
On this date in 1864, Flora Batson was born. She was an African American concert singer.
From Washington D.C., Batson’s youth was...
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Wed, 1864-09-28
Richard Berry Harrison was born on this date in 1864. He was an African-American actor, teacher, dramatic reader, lecturer, and elocutionist....