In this book from the #1 New York Times bestselling series, learn
how this vibrant Black neighborhood in upper Manhattan became home to
the leading Black writers, artists, and musicians of the 1920s and
1930s.
Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in
nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black
neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when
there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans--the poetry of
Langston Hughes; the novels of Zora Neale Hurston; the sculptures of
Augusta Savage and that brand-new music called jazz as only Duke
Ellington and Louis Armstrong could play it. Author Sherri Smith traces
Harlem's history all the way to its seventeenth-century roots, and
explains how the early-twentieth-century Great Migration brought African
Americans from the deep South to New York City and gave birth to the
golden years of the Harlem Renaissance.
With 80 fun black-and-white illustrations and an engaging 16-page photo
insert, readers will be excited to read this latest addition to Who HQ!