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Mrs. Matthews and her collaborators took turns at the pier
: Ibid.

pleasant lodgings for girls
:
Lewis, “The White Rose Industrial Association,” 158.

Some were well educated
:
Brown,
Homespun Heroines,
214.

By 1918, when the black population of New York
: Lewis, “The White Rose Industrial Association,” 158.

one of the most unique special libraries
: New York Evening Post,
April 6, 1910.

a good stock of aprons
: New York Age,
Advertisement, “Working Girls’ Home,” July 27, 1905.

Our history and individuality
:
Victoria Earle Matthews in Richard Newman,
African-American Quotations
(New York: Facts on File, 2000).

“Thus she hoped to inspire in them”
: Brown,
Homespun Heroines,
216.

decorated to the taste
: New York Amsterdam News
, “White Rose Home Still a Refuge After 70 Long Years,” March 4, 1967.

“The rooms retain their soft, nostalgic glow”
: Ibid.

The comedy advertised
: The play was
39 East
by Rachel Crothers. See John Corbin, “Drama: Wistaria Romance,”
New York Times,
April 1, 1919.

The picture is titled
:
Within Thirty Seconds Walk of the 135th Street Branch,
from the Franklin F. Hopper Harlem Scrapbook, 1920. NYPL Digital Gallery, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture / Photographs and Prints Division.
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?strucID=465419&imageID=1168424#_seemore
(accessed May 20, 2010).

Staff and Friends of the Negro Division
:
Photograph, circa 1935, in
The Legacy of Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: A Celebration of the Past, A Vision for the Future
(New York: New York Public Library, 1986), 47.

Instead of considering the Negro problem
:
Celeste Tibbets,
Ernestine Rose and the Origins of the Schomburg Center: Schomburg Center Occasional Papers Series, Number Two
(New York: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, 1989), 20.

to preserve the historical records
:
Elinor Des Verney Sinnette,
Arthur Alfonso Schomburg: Black Bibliophile and Collector
(Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1989), 132 – 34.

You would be surprised
:
Ibid., 74.

His interest in black history was sparked
: Ibid., 13.

There is a Negro exhibit
:
Marjorie Schuler, “New York Public Library Shows Exhibit of Negro Achievements,”
Christian Science Monitor
, August 30, 1925.

“Not long ago, the Public Library of Harlem”
: Arthur A. Schomburg, “The Negro Digs Up His Past,” in
The New Negro: An Interpretation,
edited by Alain Locke (New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925), 232.

“Mecca of Literature”
: Richard B. Moore, “Africa-Conscious Harlem,” in
Harlem, U.S.A.,
edited by John Henrik Clarke (New York: Collier Books, 1971), 37 – 38.

Revealing volumes expressed the consciousness of Africa
:
Ibid.

When I first thought of opening a bookstore
:
Abiola Sinclair, “Liberation Bookstore—15th Anniversary,”
New York Amsterdam News,
November 20, 1982.

“a three-way standoff”
: Rufus Schatzberg,
Black Organized Crime in Harlem: 1920 – 1930
(Sacramento, CA: Garland Science, 1993).

The book compiles the effort
: The Civil Rights Congress,
We Charge Genocide: The Historic Petition to the United Nations for Relief from a Crime of the United States Government Against the Negro People
(New York: Civil Rights Congress, 1951).

Mrs. Charles Turner of New York City
:
Ibid., 116.

One speaker, David White
:
Lee A. Daniels, “City Proposal to Rebuild Harlem Gets Stony Community Response,”
New York Times,
February 3, 1983.

“David White was a founding member”
: From author’s private collection.

Flashing through the streets
:
Ibid.

“The American Negro must remake his past”
: Schomburg, “The Negro Digs Up His Past,” 231, 237.

The original symbol once guarded
: Eugène Goblet d’Alviella,
The Migration of Symbols
(Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1894), 204 – 7.

When we consider the facts
:
Schomburg, “The Negro Digs Up His Past,” 234.

dust of digging
:
Ibid., 237.

So the Negro historian today
:
Ibid., 231.

During the life of the Cheikh
: See Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts with Gassia Armenian and Ousmane Gueye,
A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal
(Los Angeles: University of California Los Angeles, Fowler, 2003).

Their holy men minister with words
: Ibid.

slum-clearance programs of the 1950s
: See Committee on Slum Clearance Plans,
Harlem: Slum Clearance Plan Under Title 1 of the Housing Act of 1949: Report to Mayor Impellitteri and the Board of Estimate
(New York: Committee on Slum Clearance Plans, 1951).

The instructor said
:
Langston Hughes, “Theme for English B,” in
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
(New York: Knopf, 1994), 409 – 10.

life for me ain’t been no crystal stair
:
Hughes, “Mother to Son,” Ibid., 30.

What happens to a dream deferred?
:
Hughes, “Harlem [2],” Ibid., 426.

Come, Let us roam the night together
:
Hughes, “Harlem Night Song,” Ibid., 94 – 95.

I could take the Harlem night
:
Hughes, “Juke Box Love Song,” Ibid., 393.

“I got the Weary Blues”
:
Hughes, “The Weary Blues,” Ibid., 50.

What you call a ghetto
:
Bruce Davidson,
East 100th Street
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970), n.p.

I was a neighborhood boy
:
Quoted by Ann Banks, “Introduction,” in Aaron Siskind,
Harlem Document: Photographs 1932 – 1940
(Providence, RI: Matrix Publications, 1981), 7.

I hung around playgrounds
:
Ibid.

they were black and themselves “on relief”
:
Ibid.

“So you want to know”
: Ralph Ellison, “The Way It Is,” in
Shadow and Act
(New York: Random House, 1964), 284.

“I’m in New York”
: Ellison, “Railroad Porter,” in Siskind,
Harlem Document,
54.

“And you have to take care”
: Ralph Ellison,
Invisible Man
(New York: Vintage, 1995), 255.

the low-down folks
:
Langston Hughes, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,”
The Nation
23 (June 1926): 692 – 94.

the limitations of folk art
:
Babette Deutsch, “Waste Land of Harlem” (Review of
Montage of a Dream Deferred
),
New York Times,
May 6, 1951.

I cannot truthfully state
:
Langston Hughes, “Foreword: Who Is Simple,” in
The Best of Simple
(New York: Hill and Wang, 1990), vii.

Without me saying a word
:
Ibid.

asexual
: Arnold Rampersad,
The Life of Langston Hughes. Volume I: 1902 – 1941, I, Too, Sing America
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 434.

I hope my child’ll
:
Hughes, “Lament over Love,” in
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes,
69.

a basement to Hell
:
Hurston quoted in Valerie Boyd,
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
(New York: Scribner, 2003), 384.

At certain times I have no race
:
Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me,”
World Tomorrow
11 (May 1928): 215 – 16.

lied about her age
: Boyd,
Wrapped in Rainbows,
75.

carefully accented Barnardese
:
Zora Neale Hurston, “Research,” in
Dust Tracks on a Road
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984), 175.

“Almost nobody else”
: Langston Hughes, “Harlem Literati,” in
The Big Sea: An Autobiography
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945), 239.

Research is a formalized curiosity
:
Hurston, “Research,” in
Dust Tracks,
174.

[to] many of her white friends
:
Hughes, “Harlem Literati,” in
The Big Sea,
239.

“Bam, and down in Bam”
: Zora Neale Hurston, “Glossary of Harlem Slang,” in
The Complete Stories
(New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995), 134 – 38.

arguing in favor of segregation
: Zora Neale Hurston, “Court Order Can’t Make the Races Mix,”
Orlando Sentinel, The Public Thought,
August 11, 1955. In Waldo E. Martin,
Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents
(Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 1998), 209 – 12.

Since I wash myself of race pride
:
Hurston, “Seeing the World as It Is,” in
Dust Tracks,
331.

My old folks are dead
:
Ibid., 332.

Standing on the watch-wall
:
Ibid., 333.

Harlem, physically at least
:
James Baldwin, “The Harlem Ghetto,” in
Notes of a Native Son
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1984), 57.

All of Harlem is pervaded
:
Ibid.

bounded by Lenox Avenue
:
James Baldwin, “Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem,” in
Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son
(New York: Vintage, 1993), 57.

All of Harlem, indeed, seemed to be infected
:
James Baldwin, “Me and My House,”
Harper’s
(November 1955): 54 – 61.

“Harlem had needed something to smash”
: Ibid., 61.

Blackness and whiteness
:
Ibid.

walk through the streets of Harlem
:
Baldwin, “Fifth Avenue, Uptown,” 71.

I have not written about being a Negro
:
Baldwin, “Autobiographical Notes,” in
Notes of a Native Son
, 8.

“To live in Harlem is to dwell”
: Ralph Ellison, “Harlem Is Nowhere,” in
Shadow and Act
(New York: Random House, 1964), 295 – 96.

This was not a city of realities
:
Ellison,
Invisible Man
, 159.

“a vast process of change”
: Ellison, “Harlem Is Nowhere,” 296.

metaphoric space
:
Monique M. Taylor,
Harlem Between Heaven and Hell
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 18.

How does it feel to be a problem?
:
W. E. B. DuBois,
The Souls of Black Folk
(New York: Random House, 2005), 1.

the grandchildren of those
:
Ellison, “Harlem Is Nowhere,” 296 – 97.

“A man ducks in and out of traffic”
: Ibid, 297.

“Not quite citizens”
: Ibid.

throwing his typewriter
:
Ellison, “No Apologies,”
Harper’s
(July 4, 1967): 4 – 20.

how often white liberals
:
Ibid., 12.

“respect the sacredness”
: Ibid.

the most distinguished American novel
:
According to a poll of 200 critics by
New York Herald Tribune Book Week
. Stephen Carl Tracy,
A Historical Guide to Ralph Ellison
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 40.

this is a world in which
:
Ellison, “Harlem Is Nowhere,” 297.

One “is” literally
:
Ibid., 300.

“How’re you making it?”
: Baldwin, “Fifth Avenue, Uptown,” 59.

“Heh, baby, how you doing?”
: Gordon Parks, “Foreword,”
Harlem Document,
6.

became a New Yorker in spirit
:
Alexander Gumby, Untitled Autobiographical Essay,
Columbia University Library World
(January 1957), 2. Manuscript in Gumby Papers, Columbia University, New York.

pottery, bronzes, ivories, etc.
:
Letter from B. Steiner, November 7, 1913. Gumby Papers, Columbia University, New York.

I have been going to Europe
:
Ibid.

“I decided to gather them”
: Gumby, Untitled Autobiographical Essay, 4.

acquainted with a young man
:
Ibid.

I am a Count
:
“Count DeGumphry,” Gumby Papers, Columbia University, New York.

In a letter to his friend Bruce Nugent
: Letter from Gumby to Bruce Nugent, quoted in
Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent,
edited by Thomas Wirth (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002), 29.

young college men from the South
:
Gumby Papers, Columbia University, New York.