The first tour of its kind, "Black Paris, Plus . . ." follows the Harlem Renaissance trail into the haunts of America's expatriate black artists and writers.
"Black Paris" -- the Paris that nurtured Sidney Bechet, Josephine Baker, Countee Cullen, Henry O. Tanner, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes and other gifted black American musicians, entertainers, painters and writers -- is the theme of a groundbreaking tour of the neighborhoods and institutions that gave these artists freedom to flower. The 14-day tour departs the United States Sept. 16.
Through visits to the restaurants where the black artists gathered, the nightclubs in which they performed, the schools where they trained, and the galleries that exhibited their works, the tour provides a thorough, intimate understanding of the struggles and successes that, springing from the celebrated Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s, made their reputations international.