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MISSION

While We Are Still Here (WWSH) will educate, enshrine and preserve the extraordinary legacy of Harlem as an influential incubator that was vital to the intellectual, cultural, social, and political advancements of the Harlem community as well as the African Diaspora.

vision

While We Are Still Here ensures that the “post-gentrification” community of Harlem and beyond will honor and find a meaningful connection to the legacy of African American achievement, and its paramount importance to world culture.

INSPIRATION

“…[H]eritage in all its forms must be preserved, enhanced, and handed on to future generations as a record of human experience and aspirations, so as to foster creativity in all its diversity and to inspire genuine dialogue among cultures.” 

—From the United Nations’
Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity and Creativity, Article 7

ABOUT 409 & 555 EDGECOMBE AVENUE

In the early to mid-20th century, 409 & 555 Edgecombe Avenue were home to African American attorneys, dancers, designers, gangsters, musicians, beauticians, playwrights, number runners, sociologists, and many more vocations. Both houses were home to a socioeconomic cross-section of Black America.

THEY LIVED AT 409 EDGECOMBE

Marvel cooke

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aaron douglas

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w.e.b.dubois

shirley graham

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shirley graham

safiya henderson-holmes

shirley graham

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safiya henderson-holmes

safiya henderson-holmes

safiya henderson-holmes

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james weldon johnson

safiya henderson-holmes

safiya henderson-holmes

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katharine butler-jones

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thurgood marshall

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louise thompson-patterson

louise thompson-patterson

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may edwad chinn, m.d.

louise thompson-patterson

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pura Belpré

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eunice cater, j.d.

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Julius Bledsoe

William Stanley Brathwaite

William Stanley Brathwaite

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William Stanley Brathwaite

William Stanley Brathwaite

William Stanley Brathwaite

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Jimmie Lunceford

William Stanley Brathwaite

Maudelle Bass Weston

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Maudelle Bass Weston

Maudelle Bass Weston

Maudelle Bass Weston

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Maudelle Bass Weston

THEY LIVED AT 555 EDGECOMBE

RON ALEXANDER

WILLIAM "COUNT" BASIE

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WILLIAM "COUNT" BASIE

WILLIAM "COUNT" BASIE

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JANE BOLIN

BESSIE BUCHANAN

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BESSIE BUCHANAN

BESSIE BUCHANAN

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GIL SCOTT-HERON

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TULANI KINARD

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JOE LOUIS

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ROSE MORGAN

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PAUL ROBESON

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VAUGHN TERRY

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CASSANDRA WILSON

CASSANDRA WILSON

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june benjamin

CASSANDRA WILSON

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charles alston

drs. kenneth & mamie clark

myra adele logan m.d.

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myra adele logan m.d.

drs. kenneth & mamie clark

myra adele logan m.d.

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drs. kenneth & mamie clark

drs. kenneth & mamie clark

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andy kirk

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MARJORIE ELIOT

MARJORIE ELIOT

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Anne Brown

MARJORIE ELIOT

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H. Jack Geiger, md

Larry and Alphonso “Fonce” Mizell, the Mizell Brothers

Larry and Alphonso “Fonce” Mizell, the Mizell Brothers

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Larry and Alphonso “Fonce” Mizell, the Mizell Brothers

Larry and Alphonso “Fonce” Mizell, the Mizell Brothers

Larry and Alphonso “Fonce” Mizell, the Mizell Brothers

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Clarence L Holte

Larry and Alphonso “Fonce” Mizell, the Mizell Brothers

Clarence L Holte

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canada lee

canada lee

Clarence L Holte

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they OWNED 555 EDGECOMBE

marcelino manuel da graca

marcelino manuel da graca

marcelino manuel da graca

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matthew a. golson

marcelino manuel da graca

marcelino manuel da graca

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