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When Samuelsson opened Red Rooster in Harlem, he envisioned more than a restaurant. It would be the heart of his neighborhood and a meet-and-greet, serving Southern black and cross-cultural food... and reflect Harlem's history. This book covers the multicultural recipes that are featured in the restaurant, and details how it personifies both Harlem and this country.
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Writer Ted Fox and artist James Otis Smith bring to life Harlem's legendary theater in this graphic novel adaptation of Fox's definitive, critically acclaimed history of the Apollo.
Since its inception as an African-American theater in 1934, the Apollo, and the thousands of entertainers who performed there, have led the way in the presentation of swing, bebop, rhythm and blues, jazz, gospel, soul, funk and hip-hop-along with the latest in dance...
10) The twentieth century and the Harlem Renaissance: a history of Black people in America, 1880-1930
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Discusses Black history during the early decades of the twentieth century, profiles such notables as W.E.B. DuBois, George Washington Carver, Langston Hughes, and Louis Armstrong.
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"In July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed an African American teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Protests rose up to call for an end to police brutality and the unequal treatment of Black people in a city that viewed itself as liberal. A week of upheaval ensued, including looting and property damage as well as widespread police violence, in what would be the first of the 1960s urban uprisings. Christopher...
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