By 1930, there were more than 24,000 school-age black children in Harlem (1). Five public elementary served the black community…
Our article “Harlem in Black and White: Mapping Race and Place in the 1920s,” has been accepted for publication in…
Catholic churches were spread throughout Harlem, reflecting an organization that assigned each parish a particular part of the neighborhood. Unlike…
Fuller Long* was a seventeen-year-old African American boy placed on probation in 1928, after having been convicted of having sexual…