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| ISBN-13: | 9781632461155 |
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| Publisher: | Ig Publishing |
| Publication date: | 04/06/2021 |
| Pages: | 276 |
| Sales rank: | 669,012 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d) |
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Table of Contents
Foreword Zadie Smith xiii
Preface xxi
Chapter 1 The black city within the white-Harlem, the metropolis of the Negro world-The anomaly of it-The beginning of the story of the Negro in New York-The Negro, five per cent of the population in 1626-Slavery under the Dutch-The beginning of the colony of black freemen-Growth of slavery under the English-The slave insurrection of 1712-The revolt of 1742-Number of slaves and freemen in New York at close of Revolutionary War. 3
Chapter 2 Changes in sentiment wrought by spirit of the Revolution-Forming of the Manumission Society, John Jay, president; Alexander Hamilton, secretary-Steps towards abolition of slavery-Efforts made by Negroes in New York-Methods employed-Number of Negroes in New York at close of Civil War. 10
Chapter 3 Beginnings of education-African Free School established in 1787; first free school in New York-Report on African Free School by committee from Common Council of the city-Growth of educated: leadership-Organization of churches-African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church organized, 1796-Negro Dutch Reformed Church, 1826-Widening of gap between white and black Christianity-Closing of gap between white and black education-Negro pupils and teachers in New York public school system. 16
Chapter 4 Period between abolishment of slavery in the state (1827) and in the nation (1863)-Negro suffrage in New York-Precarious situation of the freemen-Founding of FREEDOM'S JOURNAL, first Negro newspaper, in 1827-Growth of Negro press and part played by it in New York-Black anti-slavery agitators: Frederick Douglass, Samuel Ringgold Ward, Henry Highland Garnett, Alexander Crummell, James W, C. Pennington, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman-Slave insurrections in the South; their effect on the Negro freemen in the North-The Negro freemen, a problem and a menace. 22
Chapter 5 Rise of the idea of Negro colonization-Paul Cuffee, the first colonizer-The failure of colonization schemes-Attitude of Douglass and other leaders towards colonization-New economic pressure on Negroes in New York-Effect of rising tide of immigration on Negroes in New York. 32
Chapter 6 Outbreak of the Civil War-Pro-slavery sentiment in New York City-The fight for the chance to fight-New York Negro regiments in the war-The Draft Riots in New York City-The close of the war, and the lull that followed-Shift of race interests and activities to the South-Frederick Douglass, great New Yorker. 39
Chapter 7 Where the Negro lived in the earliest days of New York City-The steady shift northward-Sectional pride of the Greenwich Village colony-The shift to the upper Twenties and lower Thirties, west of Sixth Avenue-Brooklyn becomes centre of social life and respectability-Change in racial activities of the Negro in New York-v-Era of activities in the professional sports-The jockeys, the baseball players, the prize-fighters-Molineaux, the first American champion-His fight with Cribb in England for the championship of the world-Bill Richmond, New York Negro, a factor in the English prize-ring-World champions-New York, social and business centre of the Negro professionals in sports-Growth of New York's black Bohemia. 48
Chapter 8 New York's black Bohemia and its clubs-Where Negro theatrical and artistic effort was nourished-A cut-back to the earliest beginnings on the stage-The African Company in classic plays, 1821-Ira Aldridge, tragedian-His success in England and on the Continent-Ira Aldridge Memorial Chair for Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon-Actual professional start of Negro in American theatre made on minstrel stage-White Negro minstrels and black Negro minstrels-Sam Lucas-Charles Frohman started as a minstrel manager-The Frohmans, Sam Lucas, and his diamonds-Negro minstrelsy, the foundation of the middle period of Negro theatrical development. 61
Chapter 9 The middle theatrical period-The Creole Show SOUTH BEFORE THE WAR-THE OCTOROONS-ORIENTAL AMERICA-Worth's Museum-Bob Cole, a versatile genius-Some concert singers-Sissieretta Jones, the "Black Patti"-Black Pattis Troubadours-A TRIP TO COONTOWN, CLORINDY, THE ORIGIN OF THE CAKEWALK-Ernest Hogan. 80
Chapter 10 Williams and Walker come from out of the West-They make the cake-walk famous-They issue challenge for a cake-walk contest to William K. Vanderbilt-They play before King Edward-Bert Williams joins Ziegfeld follies-Cole and Johnson the shoofly regiment and the red moon. 88
Chapter 11 Negro as maker of nation's songs-"Listen to the Mocking Bird"-"Carve dot 'Possum"-James Bland, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" "Oh, dem Golden Slippers," "In the Morning by the Bright-light," "In the Evening by the Moonlight,"-Gussie L. Davis, Ernest Hogan, Cole and Johnson, and other makers of songs-Harry T. Burleigh, J. Rosamond Johnson, and Will Marion Cook-The West Fifty-third Street centre-The Marshall Hotel-Birth of the jazz orchestra-Jim Europe and the Clef Club-W C. Handy and the blues. 94
Chapter 12 The race riot of 1900-New York Negroes organize for action- The Citizens Protective League, the Afro-American Council-The national situation of the Negro-Booker T. Washington-W. E. Burghardt Du Bois-The Niagara Movement-The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People-The National Urban League. 106
Chapter 13 The trek northward-The conquest of Harlem-The invasion- The opposition-The outbreak of the World War-Black labour at a premium-The exodus north-Jobs and money plentiful-Die purchase of Harlem-Taken over without violence-The migrants to New York, Southern and West Indian-They quickly become New Yorkers-New York's tolerant attitude-Will the Negroes hold Harlem? 122
Chapter 14 The fame of Harlem-Night life in the Negro metropolis-Other modes of enjoyment, strolling, going to church, parades-The churches and their place in Negro life-The "sets" in Harlem, respectable, social, fast, and underworld. 134
Chapter 15 Growth of a Negro theatre in Harlem-The Lafayette and the Lincoln players-The darktown follies-Beginning of the third theatrical period-The Colored Players open at the Garden Theatre, April 5, 1917-The Harlem night-clubs, nurseries for talent-The Krigwa Players. 142
Chapter 16 Charles Gilpin in Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln-Charles Gilpin in O'Neil's emperor jones-The Drama League dinner, and the commotion it caused-Other playwrights who experimented with the Negro as dramatic material-Propaganda plays-Then came along shuffle along-Miller and Lyles, and Sissle and Blake-Some more "serious" plays-Paul Robeson in O'Neill's all god's chillun got wings-Riots in the air-Florence Mills, the child artist, the incomparable comedienne-Her death. 152
Chapter 17 A Negro playwright and his play-More plays-Jules Bledsoe in Green's in Abraham's bosom-Still more plays and musical comedies-The Theatre Guild produces porgy-blackbirds of 1928, with Bill Robinson and his dancing feet-Still more plays and comedies-Two other Negro playwrights attempt Broadway; one succeeds-the green pastures, the high mark of the Negro in the theatre-Seventy-five years of change in the position of the Negro in the theatre-Changes in the last twenty years, the last ten years-Well- known names-Ground gained by Negro actor and lost by Negro playwright-Harlem's relation to the Negro in the "Broadway" theatre-The Negro in the phonograph, radio, and moving-picture fields-The blues and some blues-singers-Carl Van Vechten's estimate of them. 168
Chapter 18 Harlem at the beginning of 1917-Stirrings of a new-born community-Birth of radicalism-Entry of the United States into the World War and its effect on Harlem-The Fifteenth Regiment formed; in camp; at the front; back home; under the Victory Arch-The Silent Protest Parade-The East St. Louis riots-Negro New York takes up its traditional role as defender-The Houston Affair-Committee of New York Negroes go before President Wilson with a petition-Prejudice follows the American black troops to France-Rebirth of radicalism-The radical press and the men behind it-The rise of Marcus Garvey-His fall, and some reasons for it-Garvey a tragic figure. 193
Chapter 19 The literary and artistic emergence of the Negro-A glance backward over the record of the Negro as a creative artist-The postwar poets-Claude McKay, a voice of power-The younger poets-Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes-The prose-writers-Jean Toomer, Walter White, Claude McKay, and others-The Harlem Number of the survey graphic-Some incentives to literary effort, the CRISIS prizes and opportunity prizes-Advance in music and other arts. 220
Chapter 20 Harlem still in the making-Harlem more than a community; a large-scale laboratory experiment in the race problem-Many facts discovered-Two hundred thousand Negroes live in the centre of Manhattan without race friction-Harlem Negroes an integral part of the citizenry of New York-Internal effects of the experiment- External effects-The influence of Harlem in shaping and reshaping public opinion about the Negro-One sentence with regard to the future. 239
Index 243