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Philippa Duke Schuyler: Pianist Received National Prominence at Young Age

By Tamara Shiloh, OAKLAND POST African American author and journalist George Schuyler and white artist and journalist Josephine Cogdell’s marriage was dubbed “the most celebrated interracial marriage of the Harlem Renaissance.” The couple had one child, Philippa Duke Schuyler (1931–1967). From Philippa’s birth, both Schuyler and Cogdell felt that racism in the U.S. “could be […]

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