African-American Scrapbook

Assembled at the tail end of the Harlem Renaissance by a reader in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this scrapbook opens with a page on Langston Hughes and contains only a few scattered poems along with newspaper articles and pictures.  But because the record of literacy practices of ordinary African Americans is even more slim than that of ordinary white Americans, I’m including it here.  It should be of interest to scholars of African-American history and can make an excellent addition to a course on African-American literature.   <<Scrapbooks home