Summer did not just lead residents to depart Harlem for day trips and longer summer camps; it also brought visitors…
By 1930, there were more than 24,000 school-age black children in Harlem (1). Five public elementary served the black community…
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…
Beauty parlors were the most prevalent form of black business in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s. When George Edmund…
Ice dealers were prominent among the white deliverymen, salesmen and bill collectors who ventured into the residential blocks occupied by…
