Henry Crowder

NC met, in Venice (where his band was playing at a hotel), the black American pianist Henry Crowder , with whom her complex, problematic relationship was to last until 1935.

The company was housed on the estate in Mendocino County which Walker bought out of her earnings from The Color Purple. Its first book appeared during this same month, its last in 1988. The...

Her relationship with black American jazz pianist Henry Crowder intensified her consciousness of racial inequality. She worked on the case of the Scottsboro Boys, a monstrous frame-up which was, she said, an attempt to...

NC included some of her own poetry as well as that of others in the collection entitled Henry-Music; it is accompanied by the music of her lover Henry Crowder .

The original book was 855 pages long; it measured twelve inches by ten and half; it was two inches thick; it weighed eight pounds. The title, NEGRO, ran diagonally in large red capitals across...