Until the mid-1920s, Harlem’s children went to summer camps organized by the city’s Fresh Air Fund (FAF) and other groups…
Harlem’s leaders lobbied for playgrounds to protect “children of school age, whose parents are away from home all day by…
By 1930, there were more than 24,000 school-age black children in Harlem (1). Five public elementary served the black community…
While most employed adults travelled outside Harlem to work six days a week, children remained in the neighborhood. An Urban…
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…
In the mid-1920s, an average of almost ten people a day, including two children, suffered injuries in automobile accidents between…
