Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Carl Van Vechten
Born: June 17, 1880
Died: December 21, 1964 (aged 84)
Bio: Carl Van Vechten was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein.
Known for:
- Nigger Heaven (1926)
- The Blind Bow Boy (1923)
- The tiger in the house (1920)
- Peter Whiffle (1922)
- Parties