But Robinson was not the first ballplayer in the long history of big league baseball known to be an African-American. That distinction belongs to Moses Fleetwood Walker. Read more and get tickets. Visit timesevents. Please upgrade your browser. Site Navigation Site Mobile Navigation. Overlooked These remarkable black men and women never received obituaries in The New York Times — until now. View the Latest. Scott Joplin circa He would come to be revered as a ragtime giant and an in-demand performer.
Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty Images. Read more. But many important figures were left out. Library of Congress. The cyclist Major Taylor in The fashion designer Zelda Wynn Valdes, who could fit a dress to a body of any size. Dance Theater of Harlem. Alfred Hair in his high school yearbook photo.
He helped start the Highwaymen, a collective of Floridian artists, all African-American, who painted vibrant landscapes of their home state. A portrait of the inventor Granville T.
Woods, as featured in The Cosmopolitan Magazine in He made revolutionary contributions to transportation but died destitute. The filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, center, in an ad for his film company. He wrote, directed and produced 40 or so films from to , many of which addressed issues of race. Joplin was intensely concerned with making sure the genre received its proper due, taking note of the disparaging comments made by some white critics due to the music's African American origins and radical form.
As such, he published a series that broke down the complexities of ragtime form for students: The School of Ragtime: Six Exercises for Piano. Joplin also aspired to produce long-form works. The production was shut down due partially to the theft of box-office receipts, with Joplin ultimately dealing with great financial losses. By , Joplin had settled in New York to work on securing funding for another opera he had created, Treemonisha , a multi-genre theatrical project which told the story of a rural African-American community near Texarkana.
A precursor to George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess , Treemonish a was presented in as a scaled-down production with voice and piano, but would not receive a full-stage treatment for years to come. Joplin continued to work on various musical forms and formed his own publishing company with his third wife, Lottie, in By , he had started to succumb to the ravages of syphilis, which he was thought to have contracted years earlier, and was later hospitalized and institutionalized. Joplin died on April 1, Ragtime would enjoy a resurgence during the s, and then in the '70s became a hugely popular classical genre that also entered the U.
Joplin's Treemonisha was also fully staged in on Broadway. The following year, Joplin received a special posthumous Pulitzer Prize, honoring the man who shaped a genre that influenced decades of music. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. Recent blog posts Forum.
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