Dorothy Randolph Peterson (June 21, 1897 - November 4, 1978) was an
American teacher and actress who played an important role in the
Harlem Renaissance through her efforts to promote and preserve the
achievements of African-American artists.Peterson spent much of her
childhood in Puerto Rico, due to her father's work as the U.S. Consul
to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. After attending university in Puerto
Rico, she attended New York University and moved to Harlem in the
1920s. There, she engaged in the artistic community by hosting
literary salons, as an early patron of Fire!! -- A Quarterly Devoted
to the Younger Negro Artists, and as co-founder of the Negro
Experimental Theater in 1929 with Regina Anderson. Her efforts to
preserve African-American art and culture culminated with her founding
of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and
Letters at Yale University and the Jerome Bowers Peterson Collection
of Photographs of Celebrated Negroes at Wadleigh High School in
Harlem.
American teacher and actress who played an important role in the
Harlem Renaissance through her efforts to promote and preserve the
achievements of African-American artists.Peterson spent much of her
childhood in Puerto Rico, due to her father's work as the U.S. Consul
to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. After attending university in Puerto
Rico, she attended New York University and moved to Harlem in the
1920s. There, she engaged in the artistic community by hosting
literary salons, as an early patron of Fire!! -- A Quarterly Devoted
to the Younger Negro Artists, and as co-founder of the Negro
Experimental Theater in 1929 with Regina Anderson. Her efforts to
preserve African-American art and culture culminated with her founding
of the James Weldon Johnson Memorial Collection of Negro Arts and
Letters at Yale University and the Jerome Bowers Peterson Collection
of Photographs of Celebrated Negroes at Wadleigh High School in
Harlem.
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