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, the social scientist, ad 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 of the 1920s. In this classic work, first published in 1930, James Weldon Johnson, one of the leading lights of…
Author: James Weldon Johnson · Original publisher: Alfred A. Knopf (1930)
Tier 1 — Full text hosted on this page. Public domain: first published 1930; full text of the original work freely available at Internet Archive. (Our catalog record is a later edition.) The full text is held in fulltexts/ as `7398-black-manhattan.txt` (see fulltexts/INDEX.md).
