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…
Our article “Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem” has been accepted for publication in…
On Saturday evenings, as crowds thronged Seventh Avenue in search of entertainment, many residents of Harlem headed to Eighth and…
Todd Presner, Professor of Germanic Languages, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies at UCLA and a founder and director of the…
A new feature has been added to Digital Harlem, thanks to the folks at the Archaeological Computing Laboratory. It is…
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…
Our article, “This Harlem Life: Black Families and Everyday Life in the 1920s and 1930s,” has now been published in…
Beauty parlors were the most prevalent form of black business in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s. When George Edmund…
