Harlem in 1928 had been called the Mecca of the New Negro and many cruder names; Thurman, who lived and wrote there, set out to show what it was actually like. His brisk tour covers its two hundred thousand residents, social and night life, cinemas and cabarets, house-rent parties, the numbers game, the churches and the Black press.
A candid, witty snapshot of Harlem at its height by the novelist of The Blacker the Berry. Download the free EPUB.