Tag: Anita Hemmings

  • Karin Tanabe: THE GILDED YEARS Busboys and Poets Langston Room 2021 14th Street, NW (14 & V Street, NW) Washington, D.C. 20009 Tuesday, 2016-06-14, 18:30-20:30 EDT (Local Time) Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets 14th & V welcomes Karin Tanabe to present the new book “The Gilded Years.” A Politico journalist turned novelist, Tanabe…

  • “Passing” meets “The House of Mirth: in this “utterly captivating” (Kathleen Grissom, New York Times bestselling author of “The Kitchen House”) historical novel based on the true story of Anita Hemmings, the first black student to attend Vassar, who successfully passed as white—until she let herself grow too attached to the wrong person.

  • When Anita Florence Hemmings applied to Vassar in 1893, there was nothing in her records to indicate that she would be any different from the 103 other girls who were entering the class of 1897. But by August 1897, the world as well as the college had discovered her secret: Anita Hemmings was Vassar’s first…