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Harlem Renaissance Reference library
Black Women in America (2 ed.)
...at the time, the show was considered a triumph primarily for the cast. Critics of the time were hugely impressed by the quality of the performances. Robert Benchley , critic for the Tribune , raved. George Jean Nathan , leading critic of the day, put two of the actors— Opal Cooper and Inez Clough—on his list of the ten best male and the ten best female performers on Broadway that year. Another black woman who set the theatrical stage for the Harlem Renaissance was Rose McClendon . One of the few black women to win recognition on Broadway, she...
African Historical Geography, Landscapes, and Environmental Change Reference library
Katherine Homewood
The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Historiography: Methods and Sources
...from grass, and microscopic fragments of charcoal, all used to reconstruct past environments. Grasses and other monocotyledonous plants often produce characteristically shaped phytoliths of silica and/or calcium, readily preserved and mineralizing, under the right conditions, to opal. All of these components, their presence/absence and proportional contribution to the overall core, constitute proxy measures of environmental characteristics. Total volumes of phytoliths, such as have been retrieved from oceanic cores off west equatorial Africa, may indicate...
