When blacks moved to Harlem to live, they also looked to relocate and establish businesses. While the number of Harlem’s…
Stephen Robertson’s article, “Constrained but not contained: Patterns of everyday life and the limits of segregation in 1920s Harlem,” has…
Our article, “Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s,” has now appeared in the Journal…
Marcus Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) was headquartered in Harlem from 1918 to 1927. The organization generally appears in…
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…
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…
With the publication of our book Playing the Numbers drawing near, I’ve added some more pages explaining the game: how…
The map of Numbers arrests is currently one of the Featured Maps on the Digital Harlem site; simply click on…
