Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I

Table of Contents

Contents Introduction 1 1. The Most Fatally Fascinating Thing in America 9 2. Purged of the Vicious Classes 39 3. To Check the Menacing Black Hordes 72 4. Jobs Are Just Chances 107 5. The Anxiety of Keeping the Home Together 137 6. Negro Metropolis 170 Notes 197 Index 221 Acknowledgments 229 ...