Numbers gambling formed part of the rhythm of Harlem’s street life. A map of arrests for playing the numbers in…
Harlem is also a parade ground. During the warmer months of the year no Sunday passes without several parades. There…
On Saturday evenings, as crowds thronged Seventh Avenue in search of entertainment, many residents of Harlem headed to Eighth and…
A new feature has been added to Digital Harlem, thanks to the folks at the Archaeological Computing Laboratory. It is…
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…
Roger Walker* was a nineteen-year old native of North Carolina and restaurant worker placed on probation after being convicted of…
Soapbox or street corner speakers were a feature of everyday life in Harlem from World War One to the 1960s. …
In the mid-1920s, an average of almost ten people a day, including two children, suffered injuries in automobile accidents between…
Prostitutes were among the blacks who migrated from the San Juan Hill neighborhood to Harlem. As early as 1919, according…
