The Wedding

Yolande Leaves Baltimore for NYC wedding

DrJinHarlem

Yolande DuBois traveled from Baltimore to New York City in a special train car along with many of her 16 bridesmaids. Her wedding to poet Countee Cullen took place on Easter Monday, April 9, 1928.

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A graduate of Smith College and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, I am a retired professor of English. My scholarship illuminates lesser known figures of the Harlem Renaissance. I reside in the south of France.

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