The world above 110th Street, from Marcus Garvey to Madam C. J. Walker. SHAPING A BLACK METROPOLIS When some nineteenth-century New Yorkers said “Harlem,” they meant almost all of Manhattan above Eighty-sixth Street. Toward the end of the century, however, a group of citizens in upper Manhatt ...
By Jervis Anderson June 21, 1981 The story of a refuge. This is the first part of a four-part article. Read the second part. The Journey Uptown In one of the early months of 1914, St. James Presbyterian, a black church then occupying premises on West Fift ...