Walking Tour Guidebook
May 2019

Radical Black Women of Harlem Walking Tour

Asha Futterman and Mariame Kaba

The Radical Black Women of Harlem Walking Tour was researched by Asha Futterman with support from Mariame Kaba, with map design by Arrianna Planey, and publication design by Neta Bomani. This tour guide is designed for educational and organizing use by students, educators, and community members.

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, NY 10037
Apr 7, 2019 | 10:45AM

Radical Black Women of Harlem: A Walking Tour

Asha Futterman and Mariame Kaba

Learn about radical Black women who contributed to making Harlem a center of cultural innovation, radical politics and sustained activism throughout the twentieth century.

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Amy Ashwood Garvey, audre lorde, Black radicalism, Black Women, Claudia Jones, Ella Baker, Eslanda Robeson, Harlem, Lorraine Hansberry, Louise Thompson Patterson, Madame C.J. Walker, Mae Mallory, Pauli Murray, Radical history, Regina Andrews, Williana Burroughs, Zora Neale Hurston

Ella Weed Room, Milbank Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027
Apr 3, 2017 | 6:00PM

Hearing the Hidden Stories: Walking as a Signature and Interpretation

Garnette Cadogan

Our public spaces are repositories of stories, many of which reveal both the nature of public life and the particularities of the lives that move through them. But in our attempt to understand public life, we tend to immerse ourselves in data, too often sidelining the rich variety of stories that helps us understand what […]

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Harlem, Harlem Semester

James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall
Sep 16, 2016 | 10:30AM

When Sugar Hill Was Sweet: A Centennial Celebration of 409 & 555 Edgecombe Avenue

Multiple speakers

A Centennial Celebration of 409 and 555 Edgecombe Avenue A Day of Performances and Panel Discussions at Barnard College 10:30 AM – 6:30 PM PANEL: Of the Cloth: Theologians, Ministers, and Christian Capitalists Speakers: William Seraile, Ph.D., Reverend LaKeesha Walrond, Ph.D. From Daddy Grace’s enormous property holdings, including ownership of 555 Edgecombe Avenue, to the […]

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Sustaining Harlem: Art, Community Activism and Black Women’s Leadership

Panel discussion featuring Patricia Cruz, Thelma Golden, Virginia Johnson and Sade Lythcott, moderated by Tina Campt at The Scholar & Feminist 41: Sustainabilities.

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africana, Harlem, Patricia Cruz, Sade Lythcott, Thelma Golden, Virginia Johnson