Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto: Negro New York 1890-1930

For social history, no book has surpassed Mr. Osofsky's account of how a pleasant, pastoral upper-middle-class suburb of Manhattan turned into an appalling black slum within forty years. "A careful and important study."--John Hope Franklin.

ISBN-13: 9781566631044

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher

Publication Date: 02-01-1996

Pages: 300

Product Dimensions: 8.27h x 5.53w x 0.83d

Gilbert Osofsky taught American history at the University of Illinois at Chicago before his death in 1974. His other books include Puttin' on Ole Massa and The Burden of Race.