While most employed adults travelled outside Harlem to work six days a week, children remained in the neighborhood. An Urban…
Aggregated census data have been important in establishing the character of Harlem as a black neighbourhood. Census schedules individualize that…
Annie Dillard*, an 18 year old native of St Kitts in the British West Indies, was admitted to the New…
Our article “Disorderly Houses: Residences, Privacy and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem” has been accepted for publication in…
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…
Perry Brown* was a forty-five-year-old born in Pennsylvania, who was placed on probation after stealing coats from the building of…
A West Indian, born in 1888, who arrived in Harlem in 1917, Morgan Thompson* was convicted of assault in 1928…
Our article “This Harlem Life: Black Families and Everyday Life in the 1920s and 1930s” has been accepted for publication…
