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Additional authors

1. Cosgrave, John O'Hara, II, 1908-1968

Description

1. vi, 364 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

1. What is Harlem? In New World A-Coming: Inside Black America, Roi Ottley presents this city within a city and its one million people, packed sardine-fashion into some two square miles, as something more than "the capital of clowns, cults, and cabarets and the cultural hub of the Negro world." Since its beginnings around 1900 as a little community of "black aristocracy," Harlem's modern history began with the purchase, by Negroes, of thirteen large apartment houses on 135th Street. Now [1943] Harlem, woefully overcrowded, is infinitely subdivided and intermixed with all shades and varieties of color. There are about 2,000 native pure black Africans; 5,000 Moslems; as many more Jewish Negroes, descendants of the "lost Black Tribe" of Abyssinia. Among 125,000 others are French-speaking Haitians, Spanish-speaking Puerto Ricans and Cubans, pro British East Indians. In Harlem also live some 2,000 Chinese.

Series statement

1. Life-in-America prize book

Uniform title

1. Life-in-America prize book.

Subject

1. 1900-1999
2. African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century
3. African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social life and customs
4. African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions
5. African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Economic conditions
6. Communities -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
7. African Americans -- Social life and customs
8. African Americans -- Social conditions
9. African Americans -- Economic conditions
10. Communities
11. Race relations
12. African Americans
13. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- 20th century -- Race relations
14. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- 20th century -- History
15. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- 20th century -- Biography
16. New York (State) -- New York
17. New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem

Genre/Form

1. Biographies.
2. History.

Contents

1. Capital of black america -- Passage to utopia -- The negro pitches his tent! -- How colored is harlem? -- Springtime in harlem -- Up, you mighty race! -- I talked with god -- The apostles of race -- The jobs-for-negroes campaign -- Jews in negro life -- Found: the lost tribe of black jews -- The slum-shocked -- The café-au-lait society -- Joe louis and his people -- The negro's ballot -- Glamour boy -- Who are the negro's leaders? -- The black cabineteers -- Freedom of the black press -- Executive order number 8802 -- Negroes are saying ... -- Made in Japan -- New world a-coming.

Call number

1. Sc D 23-655

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-354) and index.

Author

1. Ottley, Roi, 1906-1960, author.

Title

1. 'New world a-coming' : inside black America / by Roi Ottley ; [illustrated by John O'Hara Cosgrave, II].

Publisher

1. New York : Literary Classics, Inc., 1943.

Distributor

1. Boston : distributed by Houghton Mifflin Company

Copyright date

1. ©1943

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Life-in-America prize book
2. Life-in-America prize book.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-354) and index.

Local subject

1. Black author.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Added author

1. Cosgrave, John O'Hara, II, 1908-1968, illustrator.

Research call number

1. Sc D 23-655