Hidden Heritage. The roots of Black American painting - ACE210.7

New York scenes from 1920s illustrating migration of black people from the south to the north; Driskell’s VO talking about how this stimulated black artists and musicians. Driskell lecturing; photographs of black writers and performers behind him. Film of 1920s nightclubs, etc.; Driskell’s lecture talks of whites’ discovery and assimilation of black culture, and quotes W. E. B. Dubois’s criticism: "… There is more to black culture than the beating of drums." When Tricky Sam shot Father Lamb, Midsummer Night in Harlem; Nous Quatre A Paris / We Four in Paris; Subway. Photograph of Palmer Hayden [Peyton Hedgeman]. Driskell lectures over. Slow and Easy Blues and others including The Janitor Who Paints (c.1930). Driskell lecture. Cabaret scenes in Harlem. Langston Hughes’s poem Negro Servant read over. Detail from We Four in Paris. Black Belt.