Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
2. Weatherby, William J.

Description

1. xix, 328 pages : map; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Oceana book ; no. 251

Uniform title

1. Oceana book ; no. 251.

Subject

1. Social classes
2. Black people
3. African Americans
4. New York (State) > New York
5. Sources
6. New York (State) > New York > Harlem
7. African Americans > Social conditions
8. Race relations
9. African Americans > Social life and customs
10. 1900-1999
11. Black author
12. History
13. New York (N.Y.) > Race relations > History > 20th century
14. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > History > 20th century
15. Harlem Renaissance > History
16. Social classes > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
17. Black people > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
18. African Americans > New York (State) > New York > Social life and customs > 20th century
19. African Americans > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century
20. African Americans > New York (State) > New York > History > Sources

Genre/Form

1. History.
2. Sources.

Contents

1. Foreword / Mrs. Jean Blackwell Hutson -- Editors' foreword -- Preface / James Baldwin -- Book One (1626-1800). Weary new world ; The slaves rebel ; Democracy, a slogan ; Echoes of Haitian thunder -- Book Two (1800-1865). Freedom, after a fashion ; Slavery's residue ; Radicals of color ; The Civil War -- Book Three (1865-1910). Negroes in an aggressive age ; Social emergence ; The talented tenth -- Book Four (1910-1930). New faces ; The "white man's war" ; Post-war era ; The black bourgeoisie ; The Negro Renaissance ; The Depression ; "I, too, sing America."

Call number

1. Sc E 23-1459

Note

1. "Edited from manuscripts in the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History, the New York Public Library ... originally prepared by the Federal Writers Project under the working title, 'Harlem--the Negroes of New York (an informal social history).'"

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-312) and index.

Author

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

Title

1. The Negro in New York : an informal social history / Roi Ottley & William J. Weatherby, editors ; [preface by James Baldwin].

Publisher

1. New York : New York Public Library ; Dobbs Ferry, New York : Oceana Publications, 1967.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Oceana book ; no. 251
2. Oceana book ; no. 251.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-312) and index.

Local note

1. Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Local subject

1. Black author.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Added author

1. Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, writer of preface.
2. Weatherby, William J., editor.

Other form:

1. Online version: Ottley, Roi, 1906-1960 Negro in New York. New York, New York Public Library, 1967 (OCoLC)607934361

LCCN

1. 67021389

Research call number

1. Sc E 23-1459