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For over two centuries, in the North as well as the South, both within their own community and in the public arena, African Americans have presente...

For over two centuries, in the North as well as the South, both within their own community and in the public arena, African Americans have presente...

Shane White creatively uses a remarkable array of primary sources—census data, tax lists, city directories, diaries, newspapers and magazines, and ...

The phrase “Harlem in the 1920s” evokes images of the Harlem Renaissance, or of Marcus Garvey and soapbox orators haranguing crowds about politics ...

Stories of Freedom in Black New York recreates the experience of black New Yorkers as they moved from slavery to freedom. In the early decades of t...