CULTURETECHLENSIda Mae Cullen
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Combined Graph record U-03524 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-1383. Master record source: User-supplied review 2026-10-17 (Once Upon a Time in Harlem review, Oct 15, 2026) — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.
Widow of poet Countee Cullen
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Widow of poet Countee Cullen
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- Role(s): Harlem Renaissance figure
- Known for: Widow of poet Countee Cullen
Relationships
- Harlem Renaissance Reunion Party (1972) — appeared in
STRONG EVIDENCE - Once Upon a Time in Harlem — appeared in
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Sources
- https://amistad-finding-aids.tulane.edu/agents/people/70?&filter_fields[]=subjects&filter_values[]=African+American+art+--+Collectors+and+collecting (verification source · master store)
Evidence note (master store)
Ida Cullen Cooper (born Ida Mae Roberson, Tulsa, Oklahoma, January 3, 1903) was the widow of Harlem Renaissance poet Countee Cullen: she married Countee Cullen on September 27, 1940, he died January 9, 1946, and in 1950 she established the Countee Cullen Foundation to promote his legacy, resulting in the 136th Street Branch Library in Harlem being renamed for Countee Cullen in 1959; she died May 3, 1986 in New York.
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