Save Harlem Now

Save the Date: September 8, 2024 Billie Holiday's Harlem Walking Tour Get tickets and details here: givebutter.com/fs09ZX

Join me in raising money for Save Harlem Now! via @givebutter givebutter.com/GeneNorman

Our thanks to @SaveHarlemNow!, event sponsor @SenatorCCleare, the Friendship Baptist Church in Harlem, and everyone who turned out for this great community forum. 🧵2/2

Do you know #GeorgiaDouglasJohnson? She is known as one of the earliest female #AfricanAmerican playwrights and was important figure during the #HarlemRenaissance. She wrote songs, plays, short stories, taught music, and performed as an organist at her church. #WomensHistoryMonth

Do you know #JessieRedmonFauset? She was an #AfricanAmerican editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator known for sculpting #AfricanAmericanLiterature and mentoring #AfricanAmericanWriters Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Countee Cullen, and Claude McKay #WomensHistoryMonth

Do you know #NellaLarsen? She was a #AfricanAmerican novelist, nurse, and librarian known for her published novels #Quicksand and #Passing and known as a premier novelist of the #HarlemRenaissance and figure in American modernism. #WomensHistoryMonth

Today marks the beginning of #WomensHistoryMonth! Today we celebrate #ZoraNealeHurston, an #AfricanAmerican author, anthropologist, and filmmaker known for portraying racial struggles in the early 20th century American South and published research on hoodoo.

Do you know that the #ClubmensBeneficialLeague, an early fraternal #AfricanAmerican beneficial society that gave financial aid to its sick members, was housed in #CentralHarlem at 125-127 West 130th Street? #BlackHistoryMonth

Do you know that #VertnerTandy, the first #AfricanAmerican #architect registered in New York State, redesigned the facade of 170 West 130th Street in #CentralHarlem? #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackFirsts

Do you know that #AfricanAmerican philanthropist and educator #KatyFerguson established the #KatyFergusonHouse to aid African American mothers and kids in #CentralHarlem at 162 West 130th Street? #BlackHistoryMonth

Do you know that #GeneNorman, the first African American chairman for @nyclandmarks who served from 198301989, oversaw the designation of the #WoolworthBuilding, @apollotheater, @rockcenternyc, and 34 Broadway Theaters? #BlackHistoryMonth #NYCLPC #NYCLandmarks

Do you know that #AfricanAmericanActress #AliceGorgas, who appeared in her first stage place “The Ole Man’s Boy” in 1913, lived in #CentralHarlem at 160 West 132nd Street in the 1930s? #BlackHistoryMonth

Do you know that married #Jazz and #Blues #BlackMusicians Leola Wilson and Wesley Wilson lived in #CentralHarlem at 153 West 132nd Street? #BlackHistoryMonth

Do you know that the Colored Branch of the #YWCA, a key institution for #AfricanAmericanWomen in the early 20th century, used to have headquarters in #CentralHarlem at 121-123 West 132nd Street? #BlackHistoryMonth

Do you know that the Frogs Clubhouse, a #BlackTheater professional organization in New York and Philadelphia with members like #BertWilliams, #GeorgeWalker, #JamesReeseEurope and #BobCole, had headquarters in #CentralHarlem at 111 West 132nd Street? #BlackHistoryMonth

Do you know that the Popularity Club Restaurant used to host #BlackMusicians like Fess Williams, Blanche Calloway, and Noble Sissle in #CentralHarlem at 161-163 West 131st Street? #BlackHistoryMonth

Do you know that composer and pianist, #ScottJoplin, otherwise known as the #KingOfRagtime, lived in #CentralHarlem at 163 West 131st Street? #BlackHistoryMonth

Do know that undertaker Granville O. Paris moved his practice, Granville O. Paris Funeral Home, in #CentralHarlem from 116 West 131st Street across the street to 151 West 131st Street? #BlackHistoryMonth

Do you know that William H. Des Verney, organizer of the #BrotherhoodOfSleepingCarPorters, lived in #CentralHarlem and formed the first predominantly African American labor union at his home at 148-150 West 131st Street?