Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was headquartered in Harlem from 1918 to 1927. The organization generally appears in…
Beauty parlors were the most prevalent form of black business in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s. When George Edmund…
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…