Numbers gambling formed part of the rhythm of Harlem’s street life. A map of arrests for playing the numbers in…
Our article “Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s,” has been accepted for publication in…
Hubert Julian, by his own account, arrived in Harlem in 1921. Born in Trinidad in 1897, he had migrated to…
In 1911, Harlem gained its own black professional baseball team, the Lincoln Giants. The white brothers, Edward and Jess McMahon,…
Sports loomed large among the entertainments patronized by Harlem’s residents in the 1920s. Basketball occupied the most prominent place. Romeo…
Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was headquartered in Harlem from 1918 to 1927. The organization generally appears in…
Annie Dillard*, an 18 year old native of St Kitts in the British West Indies, was admitted to the New…
Harlem is also a parade ground. During the warmer months of the year no Sunday passes without several parades. There…
On Saturday evenings, as crowds thronged Seventh Avenue in search of entertainment, many residents of Harlem headed to Eighth and…
A new feature has been added to Digital Harlem, thanks to the folks at the Archaeological Computing Laboratory. It is…
