Interview with Prentiss Taylor
Object Details
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Scope and Contents
- Prentiss Taylor talks about working with Langston Hughes to create The Negro Mother and the Scottsboro Limited. The illustrations created by Taylor, and the texts created by Hughes. Taylor talks about Hughes' personality and their relationship to Carl Van Vechten. Additionally, Taylor speaks of the Ethiopian Art Theatre, Rose McClendon, and the origin of Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven.
- Interview. Sound is distorted. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings. Undated.
- Date
- circa 1970s
- Extent
- 1 Sound recording (open reel, 1/4 inch)
- Type
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Occupation
- Artists
- Topic
- African Americans
- African American artists
- African American poets
- Poets
- Theater
- Harlem Renaissance
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Citation
- Interview with Prentiss Taylor, Record Group AV09-023, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-023, Item ACMA AV003312-1
- Local Numbers
- ACMA AV003312-2
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Museum Events, Programs, and Projects, 1967-1989
- Date
- 1967-1989