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Regina Anderson

April 10, 2018 in Modern Worthies

Regina Anderson

The Harlem Renaissance's Librarian

Her apartment, which she dubbed Dream Haven, was a “who’s-who of the Harlem Renaissance: artists, poets, writers, songwriters, intellectuals, and activists” - everyone from Zora Neale Hurston to Langston Hughes to W.E.B. Du Bois.

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