Harlem: The Crucible of Modern African American Culture

Focusing on the contributions of civic reformers and political architects who arrived in New York in the early decades of the 20th century, this book explores the wide array of sweeping social reforms and radical racial demands first conceived of and planned in Harlem that transformed African Americans into self-aware U.S. citizens for the first time in history.

When the first slave escaped bondage in the American South and migrated to the Northeast region of the United States, this act of a...