User:Radh/Afro-american artists and writers abroad


 * 19th Century


 * Victor Séjour. (1817-1874). First Afro-American short story? But written in French, published in France only until recently.
 * William Wells Brown. 1849
 * Frederick Douglass


 * Mary Church Terrell. Visited Paris in the period from 1888-1921. Also in Berlin.


 * Liberia


 * New Orleans
 * Armand Lanusse, editor: Les Cennelles (1845). Visited Paris (?).


 * 1880-, 1900-, 1920- Paris
 * Mary Church Terrell. Visited Paris in the period from 1888-1921. Also in Berlin.
 * Carter Godwin Woodson. 1908
 * William Monroe Trotter. 1919
 * Anna Julia Cooper


 * Eugene Bullard: All Blood Runs Red (memoir)
 * McKay
 * Jean Toomer 1924
 * Gwendolyn Bennetta Bennett. artist. 1925
 * Jessie Fauset. London?
 * Langston Hughes. Rotterdam to Paris, February 1924. Six months.


 * 1950-


 * James Baldwin
 * Chester Himes
 * Richard Wright. Spring 1946. 6tes Arrondissement.


 * 1960 - Trip to Cuba. Fair Play for Cuba Committee.
 * Ed Clark, painter
 * John Henrik Clarke
 * Harold Cruse. 1962 essay: Revolutionary Nationalism and the Afro-American
 * LeRoi Jones/ Amiri Baraka
 * Tom Feelings
 * Julian Mayfield
 * Sonia Sanchez
 * Robert F. Williams
 * Sarah E. Wright, novelist


 * Exile in Cuba, Algiers, China, North Corea


 * Robert F. Williams (Cuba, Tanzania, China)
 * Bob Moses (Tanzania)
 * Eldridge Cleaver (Algiers, Corea)
 * Stokely Carmichael (?)
 * Assata Shakur (Cuba)


 * c.1957-1966 - Exile in Ghana


 * Maya Angelou
 * Ralph Bunche
 * Harold Cruse: The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1968)
 * St. Clair Drake
 * Shirley Graham Du Bois, W. E. B. Du Bois. Both renounced U.S. citizenship
 * Tom Feelings
 * Victoria Garvin (trade unionist)
 * Martin L. Kilson, Jr. (* 1931)
 * Preston King
 * Leslie Alexander Lacey
 * Dr. Robert Lee - renounced U.S. citizenship
 * Pauli Murray
 * Julian Mayfield and Anna Livia Cordero (from Puerto Rico)
 * Pauli Murray
 * George Padmore (Trinidadian), Dorothy Padmore
 * A. Philip Randolph
 * William Gardner Smith
 * William Sutherland. To Ghana in 1953. Married Ghanaian writer Efua Sutherland
 * Richard Wright


 * 1960 Copenhagen


 * Cecil Brown: The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger


 * Today


 * Elliott Hester
 * fr:Jake Lamar. In Paris since 1993. Thrillers
 * Janet McDonald. Young Adult books. Died April 2007

ARTISTS Sam Middleton
 * Charles Alston artist
 * Josephine Baker
 * Richmond Barthé sculptor
 * Skunder Boghossian. Ethopian artist.
 * Barbara Chase-Riboud sculptor, writer. Paris since around 1960.
 * Ed Clark (artist) abstract painter
 * Beauford Delaney painter
 * Palmer Hayden artist
 * Richard Hunt (sculptor) sculptor [?]
 * Jacob Lawrence artist
 * Clarence Major writer
 * Gordon Parks photographer
 * Elizabeth Prophet
 * Henry O. Tanner
 * Lawrence Taylor artist
 * Melvin Van Peebles
 * Eugene Warburg
 * Charles White. artist (Charles Wilbert White?)
 * Hale Woodruff. artist
 * Beulah Woodward artist

Lit.:
 * Michel Fabre: From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980. University of Illinois Press, 1991.
 * Michel Fabre: Les Noirs Americains. Librarie Armand Colin, Paris 1970.