| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xi, 302 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : history from the ground up -- Two Harlems. Minstrel show ; Whites invade Harlem / Levi Hurbert -- Lost manuscripts. Visible men : Eddie's bar ; Colonial Park ; Sweet the monkey ; The street / Ralph Ellison ; My people / Ralph Ellison and Clarence Weinstock ; Pluto / Dorothy West ; Rent parties ; Buffet flat ; Slick Reynolds / Frank Byrd ; Laundry workers ; Negro laundry workers / Vivian Morris. |
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Pushcarts, Thursday girls, and other workers. Afternoon in a pushcart peddlers' colony / Frank Byrd ; Street cries and criers / Frank Byrd and Terry Roth ; Homey the vegetable man / Frank Byrd ; Kingfish / Marion Charles Hatch ; Life in the Harlem markets ; The Harlem market ; Fatso the slickster, Pullman porters', and dining car folklore ; Fatso's mistake ; Chef Watkins's alibi ; Chef Sampson's icebox / Frank Byrd ; West Indies / Ellis Williams ; Worker's Alliance ; Laundry worker's choir ; Thursday girls ; Slave market ; Domestic Workers Union ; Domestic price wars / Vivian Morris ; Private life of Big Bess ; Betty / Frank Byrd ; Commercial enterprise ; Dancing girls ; Finger waves and Nu Life pomades / Vivian Morris. |
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Uptown gods, kings, and other spiritual entities. God was happy / Vivian Morris ; Peace in the kingdom / Frank Byrd ; Father Divine comes to Harlem / Levi Hurbert ; Emancipation / Frank Byrd ; Divine is Gawd / Herman Spector ; Temple of Grace / Dorothy West ; Deities and their Duesenbergs ; Holy and sanctified / Vivian Morris ; Obeah / Ellis Williams ; Conjure man / Vivian Morris ; Ghost story / Dorothy West. |
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People, places, and things. Amateur night at the Apollo / Dorothy West ; Almost made king / Vivian Morris ; Cocktail party / Dorothy West ; Cliff Webb and Billie Day / Frank Byrd ; Matt Henson retires / Theodore Poston ; Race Horse Row ; Harlem Hospital / Vivian Morris ; Angelo Herndon / Theodore Poston ; Swing clubs / Vivian Morris. |
| Note |
Compiled with manuscripts from the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Writer's Project Collection, 1936-1940. |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors.
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American literature -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Literary collections.
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African Americans -- Literary collections.
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American literature -- 20th century.
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Harlem Renaissance -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Bascom, Lionel C.
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| ISBN |
0380976641 alkaline paper |
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9780380976645 alkaline paper |
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