Art

Literature

Music

Historic

Preservation

Theater

• Clubs and Societies– Etcher’s Club

•Carolina Art Association > Gibbes Art Gallery

– Poetry Society of South Carolina– Salons and Discussion Circles

•Laura Bragg•Alice Smith• John Bennett

John Bennett

“Nowhere in the north is there such complete sterility, so depressing a

lack of all civilized gesture and aspiration.”

-- H. L. Mencken,

“The Sahara of the

Bozart,”1917

• Literature– DuBose Heyward– John Bennett– Hervey Allen– Josephine Pinckney– Beatrice Ravenel– Herbert Ravenel Sass

Robert Frost

Carl Sandburg

Gertrude Stein

“…. I would like you in Charleston ….. To speak for the South in poetry.”

-- Harriet Monroe, 1922

• Theatre– The Footlight Players– The Dock Street Theatre

The Dock Street Theater

~ Reopened November 1937 ~

The Footlight Players Theater and Workshop

• Historic Preservation– Susan Pringle Frost– Alice and Daniel Smith

• Education– Laura Bragg– Mabel Pollitzer

• Suffrage– Anita Pollitzer

Josephine Pinckney

Laura Bragg

Anita and the NWPAnita Pollitzer

and the National Woman’s Party

"The Golden Lane."

"A line of women dressed in white with yellow sashes and parasols, spaced four feet apart, stood along the curb beside their state suffrage banners on both sides of the street, forming a lane through which the Democratic delegates must walk . . . to the Coliseum on the opening day of the convention." 1916 Democratic Convention, St. Louis

James Weldon Johnson

W. E. B. DuBois

J. Rosamund Johnson

• Music– The Society for the Preservation of

Spirituals– “The Charleston”– The Jenkins Orphanage Band

The Jenkins Orphanage Band

“the cradle of jazz”

The Band Plays On

“Cat” Anderson Jabbo Smith

• Visual Arts– Alice Ravenel Huger Smith– Elizabeth O’Neill Verner– Alfred Hutty– Edwin A. Harleston

•Anna Heyward Taylor• James Fowler Cooper

Alice R. H. Smith, “Ready for the Harvest”

Elizabeth O’Neill Verner1883-1979

“In the Shadows of St. Michael’s” –

Elizabeth O’Neill Verner

“The Strike” – Anna Heyward Taylor

“Deep South” – Alfred Hutty

Prentiss Taylor, “Experience Meeting at Massodony AME”

Prentiss Taylor, “Horlbeck Alley”

Edwin Augustus Harleston

1882-1931

Founded the NAACP Charleston Chapter

Elected as group’s 1st president

Civic leader and political activist

1933Solomon Guggenheim's Solomon Guggenheim's

NonNon--Objective Art Objective Art

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I’m Not GoingI’m Not Going“The Guggenheim exhibit of idiocies and bunk is to open shortly. I shall not attend it at all, lest I burst into profanity and shock some of the ladies.”

John Bennett

February 16th, 1936

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