The Harlem reader
Subtitle: a celebration of New York's most famous neighborhood, from the renaissance years to the twenty-first century
By: edited by Herb Boyd ; foreword by Howard Dodson.
Contributors: Boyd, Herb, 1938-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Miscellanea; African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Miscellanea; African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Miscellanea; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Miscellanea; Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography; New York (N.Y.) -- Miscellanea; New York (N.Y.) -- History -- Miscellanea; New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
Genres: Miscellanea; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Home on the grange / by Alexander Hamilton; title: The Afro-American Realty Company / by Gilbert Osofsky; title: Boyhood in Harlem / by Thomas C. Fleming; title: We return fighting / by David Levering Lewis; title: The class struggle / by W.E.B. Du Bois; title: Witness to the Harlem Renaissance / by James Weldon Johnson; title: The Garvey movement / by John Henrik Clarke; title: In his own words / by Marcus Garvey; title: Springtime in Harlem / by Roi Ottley; title: Harlem in the spotlight / by Hubert Harrison; title: Ringtail / by Rudolph Fisher; title: Nights at the Cotton Club / by Duke Ellington; title: The Harlem Rens / by Arthur Ashe, Jr.; title: Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem / by Helene Johnson; title: On "Gloria Swanson" / by Richard Bruce Nugent; title: The Abyssinian Baptist Church / by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.; title: The Harlem Fox / by J. Raymond Jones; title: Our Harlem / by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee; title: Upon arriving in Harlem / by Gordon Parks, Sr.; title: Macbeth in Harlem / by Wendy Smith; title: Zora / by Laurence Holder; title: 409 Edgecombe, baseball and Madame St. Clair / by Catherine Butler Jones; title: 116th Street / by Ann Petry; title: Life in Black and white / by Sidney Poitier; title: Hostess of Harlem / by Claude McKay; title: A toast to Harlem / by Langston Hughes; title: If you ain't got heart, you ain't got nada / by Piri Thomas; title: Homegirls on St. Nicholas Avenue / by Sonia Sanchez; title: Harlem background / by Harold Cruse; title: Lorraine Hansberry : on time! / by John Oliver Killens; title: Fifth Avenue uptown : a letter from Harlem / by James Baldwin; title: Minister Malcolm X / by Malcolm X; title: Castro in Harlem / by Maya Angelou; title: Harlem / by Henry Dumas; title: Memories of a sixties girlhood : the Harlem I love / by Michele Wallace; title: Cotton comes to Harlem / by Chester Himes; title: My Harlem / by Tonya Bolden; title: Returning to a Harlem I never left / by Eddy Harris; title: Harlem haiku : a scrapbook / by Jabari Asim; title: Passing Strivers' Row / by Grace Edwards; title: Reflections on the metro north, winter, 1990 / by Willie Perdomo; title: Making Harlem my business / by Dorothy Pitman Hughes; title: Chris Rock at the Apollo / by Cintra Wilson; title: Ethnic cleansing comes to Harlem / by Mamadou Chinyelu; title: Unforgettable summer for Harlem Little League / by Howie Evans; title: Harlem is my heart / by Yemise Cameron; title: Harlem reader vignettes / by Herb Boyd.