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Van Vechten's integrated parties were an ingenious form of "social
work." Long before it was legal for blacks and whites to interact as
peers in most bars, restaurants, theatres or parks, Vechten made his
elegant home into a meeting ground for his black and white friends and
acquaintances. Walter White liked to refer to Van Vechten's fashionable
address as "the mid-town branch of the NAACP." Click on the letter to listen to Emily Bernard's commentary. 
Carl Van Vechten
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Langston Hughes
by Carl Van Vechten |
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- Listen to a rich conversation between Emily and Judith Jones, who was Langston Hughes's last editor and who continues to work at Knopf -- Judith served as Emily's editor on this project as well. While you listen to the conversation (about 15 minutes in length), you can still move around the site, look at images and read excerpts and letters. This is a large file to download.
- Hear Emily read several of the letters from the book on Random House's Bold Type.
- Visit the Langston Hughes pages in the Knopf Poetry Center.
- Read an excerpt from Carl Van Vechten's contoversial novel, Nigger Heaven.
- Return to Emily Bernard's main desktop page.
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