Numbers gambling formed part of the rhythm of Harlem’s street life. A map of arrests for playing the numbers in…
Marcy Sacks, Associate Professor of History at Albion College, and author of Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York…
Beauty parlors were the most prevalent form of black business in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s. When George Edmund…
Shane White was interviewed by Margaret Throsby on ABC Classic FM here in Sydney this morning, talking about the history…
Soapbox or street corner speakers were a feature of everyday life in Harlem from World War One to the 1960s. …
The first review of our book, Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars, has appeared, in the Wall…
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…