In Harlem, cricket was a game almost exclusively played by West Indian immigrants. The game had a prominent place in…
Aggregated census data have been important in establishing the character of Harlem as a black neighbourhood. Census schedules individualize that…
Hubert Julian, by his own account, arrived in Harlem in 1921. Born in Trinidad in 1897, he had migrated to…
Annie Dillard*, an 18 year old native of St Kitts in the British West Indies, was admitted to the New…
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…
Soapbox or street corner speakers were a feature of everyday life in Harlem from World War One to the 1960s. …
A West Indian, born in 1888, who arrived in Harlem in 1917, Morgan Thompson* was convicted of assault in 1928…