The shots with which twenty-five-year-old William Hoyer killed his wife Jennie and five-year-old daughter Sylvia were fired at 430 St…
Beauty parlors were the most prevalent form of black business in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s. When George Edmund…
Frank Hamilton*, a twenty-three-year-old born in Memphis, Tennessee, raised in Arkansas, and educated at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, was…
Ice dealers were prominent among the white deliverymen, salesmen and bill collectors who ventured into the residential blocks occupied by…
Perry Brown* was a forty-five-year-old born in Pennsylvania, who was placed on probation after stealing coats from the building of…
Catholic churches were spread throughout Harlem, reflecting an organization that assigned each parish a particular part of the neighborhood. Unlike…
Roger Walker* was a nineteen-year old native of North Carolina and restaurant worker placed on probation after being convicted of…
Harlem in the 1920s was not well served by hospitals. One public hospital was located in the neighborhood, but continued…
Soapbox or street corner speakers were a feature of everyday life in Harlem from World War One to the 1960s. …
In the mid-1920s, an average of almost ten people a day, including two children, suffered injuries in automobile accidents between…
