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Emily Laster, Karamu House staff member, perusing wall at Karamu House, 1993. Photo by author.

Original Settlement House, opened January 7, 1916, home of Karamu House, 2239 East Thirty-eighth Street, in Cleveland, adjacent to Grant Park Playground.

Left to right: George Walker (husband of Hazel Mountain Walker), violinist Dorothy Smith, Hughes, and Lloyd Gentry at Karamu House, 1932. Courtesy of Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Festus R.Fitzhugh performing the African spirit dance from the 1934 Karamu production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Emperor Jones. Fitzhugh, president of the Gilpin Players in the late 1930s, played the role of Ham in Little Ham and co-authored with Roland Mulhauser the play One Hundred in the Shade, also performed by the Gilpiners.

Left to right: Minnie Gentry as Rose and Hazel Mountain Walker as Aunt Billie. A scene from act 2 of Hughes’s When the Jack Hollers, 1936 Gilpin Players production, Karamu Theatre. Courtesy of Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Top row, left to right: Royce Wallace, Lillian Davis, Ethel Stratford Adrine, Lottie Calloway Reed, Marjorie Witt Johnson (choreographer/leader), Roger Mae Johnson, Aileen Saunders, Ora Leak Woolley; Middle row, left to right: Valerie Williams Moreland, Leroy Polk, Ed Jones, Charles Brown, Erona Harris; Seated on floor, left to right: George Livingston, Festus R.Fitzhugh. Karamu House Dance Club, c. 1939. Courtesy of Festus R.Fitzhugh.