Renaissance Women: Georgette Seabrooke

Womanica

Wonder Media Network and iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.3 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Georgette Seabrooke, also known as Georgette Seabrooke Powell, (1916-2011) was an American muralist, artist, illustrator, art therapist, and community educator. She is best known for her mural Recreation in Harlem at Harlem Hospital, which she made while working for the WPA in 1936. A true lifelong learner, Seabrooke was educated at the Harlem Community Art Center, and studied at the Cooper Union, Fordham University, and Howard University, and many other institutions.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm Nicola Cochlin and for BBC Radio 4, this is history's youngest heroes. Rebellion, risk and the radical power of youth.
0:10.2	She thought, right, I'll just do it. She thought about others rather than herself.
0:14.8	Twelve stories of extraordinary young people from across history.
0:18.7	There's a real sense of urgency in them. That resistance has to be mounted. It has to be mounted now. across history. There's a real sense of urgency in them.
0:21.0	That resistance has to be mounted.
0:22.4	It has to be mounted now.
0:24.4	Follow history's youngest heroes, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	Welcome to the Criminalia podcast.
0:32.2	I'm Maria Tremarky.
0:33.5	And I'm Holly Fry.
0:34.9	Together, we invite you into the dark and winding corridors of historical true crime.
0:40.2	Each season, we explore a new theme from poisoners to art thieves.
0:44.6	We uncover the secrets of history's most interesting figures, from legal injustices to body snatching.
0:51.8	And tune in at the end of each episode as we indulge in cocktails and mock tales
0:56.0	inspired by each story.
0:58.8	Listen to Criminalia on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your
1:03.6	podcasts.
1:08.1	Hello, my name is Aaliyah Yates, and I'm a producer here at Wonder Media Network,
1:13.6	and I'm so excited to be guest hosting this week's episodes of Womanica.
1:18.9	This Black History Month, we're talking about Renaissance women.
1:23.3	As part of the famed cultural and artistic Harlem Renaissance movement,
1:27.3	these women found beauty in an often ugly world.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wonder Media Network and iHeartPodcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wonder Media Network and iHeartPodcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.