Table of Contents

Home on the grange / by Alexander Hamilton (1804) -- The Afro-American Realty Company / by Gilbert Osofsky (1904) -- A journey to greatness : the life and music of George Gershwin / by David Ewen (1904) -- Harlem Town / by Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth (1915) -- Boyhood in Harlem / by Thomas C. Fleming (1916) -- We return fighting / by David Levering Lewis (1918) -- The class struggle / by W.E.B. Du Bois (1920s) -- Witness to the Harlem Renaissance / by James Weldon Johnson (1920s) -- The Garvey movement / by John Henrik Clarke (1920s) -- In his own words / by Marcus Garvey (1920s) -- Springtime in Harlem / by Roi Ottley (1920s) -- Harlem in the spotlight / by Hubert Harrison (1920s) -- Ringtail / by Rudolph Fisher (1920s) -- Nights at the Cotton Club / by Duke Ellington (1920s) -- The Harlem Rens / by Arthur Ashe, Jr. (1920s) -- Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem / by Helene Johnson (1926) -- On "Gloria Swanson" (from Gay rebel of the Harlem Renaissance : selections from the work of Richard Bruce Nugent) -- The Abyssinian Baptist Church / by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (1930s) -- The Harlem Fox / by J. Raymond Jones (1930s) -- Our Harlem / by Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee (1930s) -- Upon arriving in Harlem / by Gordon Parks, Sr. (1933) -- Macbeth in Harlem / by Wendy Smith (1936) -- Zora / by Laurence Holder (1930s) -- Edgecombe, baseball, and Madame St. Clair / by Catherine Butler Jones (1936) -- 116th Street / by Ann Petry (1940s) -- Life in Black and white / by Sidney Poitier (1943) -- Hostess of Harlem / by Claude McKay (1948) -- A toast to Harlem / by Langston Hughes (1950) -- If you ain't got heart, you ain't got nada / by Piri Thomas (1950s) -- Homegirls on St. Nicholas Avenue / by Sonia Sanchez (1950s) -- Harlem background / by Harold Cruse (1950s) -- Lorraine Hansberry : on time! / by John Oliver Killens (1950s) -- Fifth Avenue uptown : a letter from Harlem / by James Baldwin (1950s) -- Spanish Harlem (the song) / artist: Ben E. King (1950s) -- Minister Malcolm X / by Malcolm X (1957) -- Castro in Harlem / by Maya Angelou (1960) -- Harlem / by Henry Dumas (1960s) -- Memories of a 60s girlhood : the Harlem I love / by Michele Wallace (1960s) -- Cotton comes to Harlem / by Chester Himes (1965) -- My Harlem / by Tonya Bolden (1960s) -- Returning to a Harlem I never left / by Eddy Harris (1970s) -- Harlem haiku : a scrapbook / by Jabari Asim (1980s) -- Passing Strivers' Row / by Grace Edwards -- A visit to Harlem / by Brian Kwan (1990s) -- Reflections on the metro north, winter, 1990 / by Willie Perdomo (1990s) -- Making Harlem my business / by Dorothy Pitman Hughes (1990s) -- Chris Rock at the Apollo / by Cintra Wilson (2000) -- Ethnic cleansing comes to Harlem / by Mamadou Chinyelu (2000) -- Come home with me / by Cam'Ron (2002) -- Unforgettable summer for Harlem Little League / by Howie Evans -- Harlem is my heart / by Yemise Cameron (2001).

About the Author

Herb Boyd is the national editor of The Black World Today, an online publication. He currently teaches African and African-American history at the College of New Rochelle in Manhattan. Co-editor with Robert Allen of the American Book Award-winning collection Brotherman and, more recently, editor of Autobiography of a People, he lives in Harlem with his wife.