Harlem - The Great Black Way 1900-1950

For half a century Harlem was Mecca for black Americans. It was black America's most vibrant community, the site and symbol of the USA's sense of possibility, an avant-garde centre in music and dance, and a democratic meeting-place for different races. Those who lived there made their own culture, their own politics and their own religion; those who poured into it at night, both black and white,found a counterpart to Broadway...