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"Or Does It Explode?": Black Harlem in the Great Depression
by
Cheryl Greenberg
145th Street: Short Stories
by
Walter Dean Myers
All Shot Up
by
Chester Himes
All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930
by
Andrea Barnet
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile and Collector
by
Elinor Des Verney Sinnette
Autobiography of My Dead Brother
by
Walter Dean Myers
Baldwin's Harlem: A Biography of James Baldwin
by
Herb Boyd
The Beast
by
Walter Dean Myers
Becoming Billie Holiday
by
Carole Weatherford
The Big Gold Dream
by
Chester Himes
The Big Sea: An Autobiography (American Century Series)
by
Langston Hughes
Black Manhattan
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James Weldon Johnson
The Blacker the Berry...
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Wallace Henry Thurman
Blind Man with a Pistol
by
Chester Himes
Borrowed Names: Poems About Laura Ingalls Wilder, Madam C.J. Walker, Marie Curie, and Their Daughters
by
Jeannine Atkins
Communists in Harlem during the Depression
by
Mark Naison
The Contender
by
Robert Lipsyte
Cotton Comes to Harlem
by
Chester Himes
Dave at Night
by
Gail Carson Levine
Dear Old Dead
by
Jane Haddam
Dee Gee Days: Savoy Sessions
by
Dizzy Gillespie
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography
by
Zora Neale Hurston
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa
by
Andrea Davis Pinkney
The End of a Primitive (Old School Books)
by
Chester Himes
Fallen Angels
by
Walter Dean Myers
Falling Angel
by
William Hjortsberg
Far Beyond the Stars
by
Ira S. Behr
The Fire Next Time
by
James Baldwin
Friday Nights at Honeybee's
by
Andrea Smith
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by
James Baldwin
Happy Feet: The Savoy Ballroom Lindy Hoppers and Me
by
Richard Michelson
Harlem
by
Walter Dean Myers
Harlem Stomp! A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance
by
Laban Carrick Hill
Harlem Style: Designing for the New Urban Aesthetic
by
Roderick N. Shade
Harlem Summer
by
Mary Elizabeth Vroman
Harlem Summer
by
Walter Dean Myers
Harlem, Lost and Found
by
Michael Henry Adams
Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930
by
Gilbert Osofsky
Historias de Nueva York
by
Enric Gonzalez
Home Girl: Building a Dream House on a Lawless Block
by
Judith Matloff
Home to Harlem
by
Claude McKay
I See the Rhythm
by
Toyomi Igus
Invisible Man
by
Ralph Ellison
Jazz
by
Toni Morrison
Lost New York
by
Nathan Silver
Luke Cage Noir
by
Mike Benson
Manchild in the Promised Land
by
Claude Brown
Meet Me at the Theresa: The Story of Harlem's Most Famous Hotel
by
Sondra Kathryn Wilson
Mystery of the Dark Tower
by
Evelyn Coleman
The New American Ghetto
by
Camilo Jose Vergara
On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance
by
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Palace Council
by
Stephen L. Carter
Push
by
Sapphire
A Rage in Harlem
by
Chester Himes
Really the Blues
by
Mezz Mezzrow
Rucker Park Setup
by
Paul Volponi
The Sage in Harlem: H.L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s
by
Charles Scruggs
Simple Takes a Wife
by
Langston Hughes
Simple's Uncle Sam
by
Langston Hughes
Skit-Scat Raggedy Cat: Ella Fitzgerald
by
Roxane Orgill
Spirit Archives, Volume 1
by
Will Eisner
Spirit of Harlem: A Portrait of America's Most Exciting Neighborhood
by
Craig Marberry
Standing at the Scratch Line
by
Guy Johnson
Still Life in Harlem: A Memoir
by
Eddy L. Harris
Stompin' at the Savoy
by
Bebe Moore Campbell
Stompin' at the Savoy: The Story of Norma Miller
by
Alan Govenar
The Street
by
Ann Petry
Street Love
by
Walter Dean Myers
Strivers Row
by
Kevin Baker
Swingin' at the Savoy: The Memoir of a Jazz Dancer
by
Norma Miller
This Was Harlem: A Cultural Portrait, 1900-1950
by
Jervis Anderson
Touring Historic Harlem: Four Walks in Northern Manhattan
by
Andrew S. Dolkart
Upstate
by
Kalisha Buckhanon
Uptown
by
Bryan Collier
What They Found: Love on 145th Street
by
Walter Dean Myers
When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
by
Hugh Pearson
When Harlem Was In Vogue
by
David Levering Lewis
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
by
Valerie Boyd
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Another Country
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