Regina Anderson Andrews

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      Andrews (1901-1993) was a Harlem It Girl, Librarian, Hostess, and Cultural Icon. She helped organize the Civic Club Dinner of 1924 - the purported birthplace of the Harlem Renaissance - and she became the first Black librarian appointed to lead a New York Public Library branch (115th St. Branch, 1938).

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Image 3: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. (1925). Guests at breakfast party for Langston Hughes hosted by Regina Anderson (Andrews) and Ethel Ray at 580 St. Nicholas Avenue, Harlem, May 1925. Back row, left to right: Ethel Ray (Nance), Langston Hughes, Helen Lanning,Pearl Fisher, Rudolf Fisher, Luella Tucker, Clarissa Scott, Hubert Delany. Front row, left to right: Regina Anderson (Andrews), Esther Popel, Jessie Fauser, Marie Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/61a1b0dc-be1b-3d13-e040-e00a18064b60
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May 21, 1901, Chicago, Illinois
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February 5, 1993, Ossining, New York
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William T. Andrews, Jr.

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➤W.E.B. Dubois (Krigwa Players)

➤Rose McClendon and Dorothy Randolph Peterson

(Negro Experimental Theatre/Harlem Experimental Theatre)

➤Ethel Ray Nance

(Chronology of African-Americans in New York, 1621-1966)

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Librarian, New York Public Library - 135th St. branch (1923); and 115th St. branch (1938) - Branch Librarian
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Wilberforce University, Columbia University (Master of Library Science)
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・Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.,

・Krigwa Players (1925),

・Negro Experimental Theatre/Harlem Experimental Theatre (1929)

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*some sources say April 6, 1845

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