In this classic work, first published in 1930, James Weldon Johnson, one of the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, combined the skills of the historian, social scientist, and the reporter to trace the New York black experience from the earliest settlements on Chatham Square during the pre-revolutionary period to the triumphant achievements of Harlem in the 1920s. But Black Manhattan is by no means simply history; It illuminates Johnson and his contributions to both black literature and black organizations; it provides us with an intimate account of the black theatrical and musical world of which Johnson had been a part; and it raises searching questions about the black people's struggle to find their identity. Black Manhattan remains one of the essential books on the black American experience, losing none of its resonance and value after many decades.
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James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) is recognized alongside W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington as one of the most respected interpreters of the black experience.
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THE fact that within New York, the greatest city of the New World, there is found the greatest single community anywhere of people descended from age Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coloured performers, coloured players, coloured schools, coloured men, coloured people Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Frederick Douglass, Florence Mills, Civil War, West Indies, Ira Aldridge, Bert Williams, Bill Robinson, Colonization Society, Creole Show, Sam Lucas, San Francisco, The Green Pastures, West Indian, African Free School, Ernest Hogan, Frank Wilson, John Brown, Lenox Avenue, Rosamond Johnson, Abbie Mitchell, Abraham Lincoln, Black Patti, Bob Cole New!
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THE fact that within New York, the greatest city of the New World, there is found the greatest single community anywhere of people descended from age Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
coloured performers, coloured players, coloured schools, coloured men, coloured people Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Frederick Douglass, Florence Mills, Civil War, West Indies, Ira Aldridge, Bert Williams, Bill Robinson, Colonization Society, Creole Show, Sam Lucas, San Francisco, The Green Pastures, West Indian, African Free School, Ernest Hogan, Frank Wilson, John Brown, Lenox Avenue, Rosamond Johnson, Abbie Mitchell, Abraham Lincoln, Black Patti, Bob Cole New!
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- Frederick Douglass by Booker T. Washington on 8 pages
- Along This Way by James Weldon Johnson on 4 pages
- Negro Americans, What Now? by James Weldon Johnson in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- What Now? by Camellia M. Johnson in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- The Harlem Group of Negro Writers By Melvin B. Tolson (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) by Melvin B. Tolson on 9 pages
- Canaan Bound: The African-American Great Migration Novel by Lawrence R. Rodgers on 6 pages
- Protest and Progress: New York's First Black Episcopal Church Fights Racism (Studies in African American History and Culture) by John Hewitt on 5 pages
- Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism by Joseph Allen Boone on 4 pages
- Beyond the Sound Barrier: The Jazz Controversy in Twentieth-Century American Fiction (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory) by Kristin K Henson on 4 pages
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