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STOPS on FEMINIST ART OF : A CELEBRATION OF REMARKABLE WOMEN Leigh Hallingby, Licensed NYC Tour Guide [email protected] 551-404-7514

1. Harlem Melody. Mural by Creative Art Works Public Art Youth Employment Program, 2015. West 141st Street and Amsterdam Avenue

2. A Bench by the Road. Honoring . Placed in 2016. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, / Boulevard (6th Avenue) between 135th and 136th Streets. Bench is in the lobby or in the lower level courtyard.

3. Madam C. J. Walker & A’Lelia Walker Place. Street sign dedicated in 2019. 136th Street and Lenox Avenue/Malcolm X Boulevard (6th Avenue).

4. Harlem Walk of Fame. Plaques on the ground, placed in 1994. 135th Street, between Adam Clayton Jr. Powell Boulevard (7th Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (8th Avenue). Includes Lois Alexander, , , and Vivian Robinson

5. Spirit of Harlem. Mosaic by Louis Delsarte, 2005 Intersection of and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (8th Avenue), SE corner

6. Mary McLeod Bethune School, 1964. Street sign dedicated in 1993. 222 West 134th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard (7th Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (8th Avenue)

7. Sylvia’s Restaurant. Founded by in 1962. 328 Lenox Avenue/Malcolm X Boulevard (6th Avenue) between 126th and 127th Streets

8. : Harlem Heroes and Heroines. Mosaic designed by Faith Ringgold 125th Street & Lenox Ave. 2/3 subway station

9. Apollo Theater Walk of Fame. Plaques on the ground. 253 West 125th Street, between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. (7th Avenue) and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (8th Avenue) Includes: Celia Cruz, Ella Fitzgerald, , Billie Holiday, , Chaka Kahn, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Patti , and Jackie

10. Harriet Tubman Statue, "Swing Low,” by Alison Saar. Installed 2008. At the intersection of Frederick Douglass Blvd (8th Avenue), St. Nicholas Avenue, and West 122nd Street.

11. & . Street sign dedicated in 2019. NE corner of West 123rd Street and St. Nicholas Avenue.

12. Hale House. Former home of Clara McBride Hale, AKA Mother Hale. 152 West 122nd Street between Lenox Avenue/Malcolm X Boulevard (6th Avenue) and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard. (7th Avenue) 2

13. Rosa Parks Condominium. Opened in 2003. 163 St. Nicholas Avenue, between West 118th and 119th Streets

14. Global Women Heroes Project. Mural painted by Carriyanni Clarke, Rosnelys Then, Celeste Perez, and Nani McWilliams in 2018 West and Frederick Douglass Boulevard (8th Avenue) Includes: Leymah Gbowee, Dolores Huerta, Bree Newsome, Malala Yousafzai, Leena Kejriwal, and Michelle Obama.

15. Minton’s Playhouse. Mosaic designed by Vincent Smith, 1999 116th Street & Lenox Ave. 2/3 subway station

16. Zora Neale Hurston. Street sign dedicated in 2018. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. (7th Avenue) between West 116th and 117th Streets

17. Sojourner Truth School, PS-MS 149. 41st 117th Street, between and Lenox Avenue/Malcolm X Boulevard (6th Avenue)

18. Wadleigh High School, 1912. Honoring Lydia Fowler Wadleigh. 215 114th Street at Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Blvd. (7th Avenue).

17. Nicholasa Mohr. Mural by El Mac and Cero, 2015 Corner or and East 111th Streets

18. Celia Cruz. Mural by Eliezer Leicea, 2019 East 111th Street and

19. Julia de Burgos. Mosaic designed and created by Manny Vega in 2006 North side of East 106th Street near corner of Lexington Avenue

20. Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center. PS 72 Heritage School Building, 1680 Lexington Avenue, East side, between East 105th and 106th Streets.

21. Soldaderas. Frida Kahlo & Julia de Burgos. Mural by Yasmin Hernandez, 2011 Lexington Ave between East 104th & 105th Streets. Inside Modesto Flores Community Garden.

22. Celia Cruz. Mural by James de la Vega in 2003 Corner of 103rd near Lexington

23. Cicely Tyson’s family’s home from 1933-1942 178 East 101st Street, between Lexington and Third Avenues

24. Uno Dos Tres. Mural designed by Carmen Herrera, created in 2020 JHS 99, 400 East 100th Street in parking lot near the FDR Drive

25. The End of Race. Mural by Lunar New Year in 2013 North side of East 100th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues 3

A Feminist Walk through Harlem: Celebrating Remarkable Women A Short Reading and Watching List Leigh Hallingby, licensed NYC tour guide [email protected] 551-404-7514

Bundles, A’Lelia. On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker. Scribner, 2002, 412 pp.

De Burgos, Julia. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos. Curbstone Books, 1995, 524 pages. 1st bilingual edition.

Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman. 37 Ink, 2019, 176 pp.

Futterman, Asha, and Mariame Kaba. Barnard College Center for Research on Women. Radical Black Women of Harlem Walking Tour. 2019. Put title into search engine.

Herrera, Hayden. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo. Harper Perennial, 1983. 528 pp.

Mohr, Nicholasa. Nilda. Pinada Books, 2011 (originally 1973), 292 pp. Young adults.

Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Amistad, 2006 (originally 1937). 219 pp.

Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. W.W. Norton, 1996, 384 pp.

Ritz, David. Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin. Little Brown, 2014, 528 pp.

Perez, Vanessa Rosario. Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon. University of Illinois Press, 2014, 224 pp.

Tyson, Cicely. Just as I Am: A Memoir. HarperCollins, 2021, 432 pp.

Wall, Cheryl A. Women of the . Indiana University Press, 1995, 272 pp. The Harlem Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2016, 152 pp.

Movies and Series

● Amazing Grace. 2018. 1h 29min. Concert footage of Aretha Franklin from 1972. ● Billie. 2020. 1h 36m. Documentary based on taped interviews from 1970’s. ● Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things. 2020. 90min. Documentary ● Frida. 2002. 2h 3min. Salma Hayek stars as Frida Kahlo. ● Harriet. 2019. 2h 5min. Cynthia Erivo stars as Harriet Tubman. ● Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am. 2019. 1h 59min. Documentary. ● Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker. Netflix, 2020, 4 episodes. ● The vs. Billie Holiday. 2021. 2h 10mim. ● Presents Moms Mabley. HBO, 2013, 71min. Documentary