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xi, 302 pages ; 20 cm. |
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Compiled with manuscripts from the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Writer's Project Collection, 1936-1940. |
Contents |
Introduction : history from the ground up -- Minstrel show -- Whites invade Harlem / Levi Hurbert -- Visible men -- Eddie's bar ; Colonial Park ; Sweet the monkey ; The street / Ralph Ellison -- My people / Ralph Ellison and Clarence Weinstock -- Pluto / Dorothy West -- Rent parties ; Buffet flat ; Slick Reynolds / Frank Byrd -- Laundry workers ; Negro laundry workers / Vivian Morris -- Afternoon in a pushcart peddlers' colony / Frank Byrd -- Street cries and criers / Frank Byrd and Terry Roth -- Homey the vegetable man / Frank Byrd -- Kingfish / Marion Charles Hatch -- Life in the Harlem markets ; The Harlem Market ; Fatso the slickster, Pullman porters', and dining car folklore ; Fatso's mistake ; Chef Watkins's alibi ; Chef Sampson's icebox / Frank Byrd -- West Indies / Ellis Williams -- Worker's Alliance ; Laundry worker's choir ; Thursday girls ; Slave market ; Domestic Workers Union ; Domestic price wars / Vivian Morris -- Private life of Big Bess ; Betty / Frank Byrd. |
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Commercial enterprise ; Dancing girls ; Finger waves and Nu Life pomades / Vivian Morris -- God was happy / Vivian Morris -- Peace in the kingdom / Frank Byrd -- Father Divine comes to Harlem / Levi Hurbert -- Emancipation / Frank Byrd -- Divine is Gawd / Herman Spector -- Temple of grace / Dorothy West -- Deities and their Duesenbergs ; Holy and sanctified / Vivian Morris -- Obeah / Ellis Williams -- Conjure man / Vivian Morris -- Ghost story ; Amateur night at the Apollo / Dorothy West -- Almost made king / Vivian Morris -- Cocktail party / Dorothy West -- Cliff Webb and Billie Day / Frank Byrd -- Matt Henson retires / Theodore Poston -- Race Horse Row ; Harlem Hospital / Vivian Morris -- Angelo Herndon / Theodore Poston -- Swing clubs / Vivian Morris. |
ISBN |
0380799022 (paperback) |
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9780380799022 (paperback) |
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