Cross-posted from drstephenrobertson.com On March 19, 2016, I participated in the Working Group on Interpreting the History of Race Riots…
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…
Hubert Julian, by his own account, arrived in Harlem in 1921. Born in Trinidad in 1897, he had migrated to…
On Saturday evenings, as crowds thronged Seventh Avenue in search of entertainment, many residents of Harlem headed to Eighth and…
The Australian Research Council today awarded us a five year grant totaling $702,000 for our new project, Year of the…
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…
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…
