Stephen Robertson’s article, “Constrained but not contained: Patterns of everyday life and the limits of segregation in 1920s Harlem,” has…
While most employed adults travelled outside Harlem to work six days a week, children remained in the neighborhood. An Urban…
Our article, “Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s,” has now appeared in the Journal…
Aggregated census data have been important in establishing the character of Harlem as a black neighbourhood. Census schedules individualize that…
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…
Our article, “The Black Eagle of Harlem,” has appeared in Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular…
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…
