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Augusta Savage (center) at the presentation of her bust of author and activist James Weldon Johnson

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Augusta Savage (center) at the presentation of her bust of author and activist James Weldon Johnson, with Ernestine Rose (left), Branch Librarian of the 135th Street Branch, New York Public Library, and Roberta Bosley Hubert (right), founder of the James Weldon Johnson Literary Guild, 1939
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Portraits Gelatin Silver Prints Group Portraits
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1939
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Portrait collection

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division. The New York Public Library

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Keywords

  1. African American Sculptors
  2. African American Women Artists
  3. African American Women Civic Leaders
  4. African Americans
  5. Busts
  6. Hubert, Roberta Bosley
  7. Johnson, James Weldon, 1871 1938
  8. New York
  9. New York (State)
  10. Rose, Ernestine, 1880 1961
  11. Savage, Augusta, 1892 1962
  12. Statues
  13. Women

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