"Or Does It Explode?": Black Harlem in the Great Depression
by Cheryl Greenberg
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Tracing the establishment of Harlem as the main area of black settlement in New York City, this study explains how both poverty created by the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the descrimination against blacks, led to the growth of a politically active black movement in Harlem.Tags
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Cheryl Lynn Greenberg is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of History at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the author of several books, including, most recently, Troubling the Waters: Black-Jewish Relations in the American Century.
Common Knowledge
- Important places
- Harlem, New York, New York, USA
- Important events
- Great Depression
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 974.7 — History & geography History of North America Northeastern United States (New England and Middle Atlantic states) New York
- LCC
- F128.68 .H3 .G74 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history New York
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- (3.00)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- UPCs
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