From left to right, attendees included Ethel Ray (Nance), Langston Hughes, Helen Lanning, Pearl Fisher, Regina Anderson (Andrews), Rudolf Fisher, Luella Tucker, Clarissa Scott (Delany), Esther Popel, Hubert Delany, Jessie Fauset, Marie Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier.
Langston Hughes, Charles S. Johnson, E. Franklin Frazier, Rudolph Fisher and Hubert Delany (brother of the Delany Sisters) overlooking St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem in the 1920s.
Hilda Simms, Langston Hughes (bottom right) and actor Canada Lee (center in white shirt) at a party with other artists around 1944. Photo by George Karger/Pix Inc./Time Life Pictures/Getty Images.
With young Zora & Langston
Young Langston Hughes in waiter’s outfit. Photo taken in Paris or DC possibly.
Alaine Locke
Black performers such as Master Juba, Bert Williams, and George Walker HAD to black themselves up to have audiences; they were black men imitating white men imitating black men.
Painting by Laura Wheeler Waring
NAACP Crisis Magazine
Photo by Tyler Shields. “Historical Fiction” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUqlkx7SiCw