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Marcy S. Sacks. Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City before World War I.(Book review)

Marcy S. Sacks. Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City before World War I. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2006. 231 pp. $49.95.

Before Harlem surfaced as the Mecca of black culture, there were three predominant regions of black life in New York City. From the late nineteenth century to World War I, African American Manhattanites lived primarily in Greenwich Village (known at the time as "Little Africa"), the Tenderloin (midtown Westside, later known as

Hell's Kitchen), and the San Juan Hill District (north of the Tenderloin). Marcy S. Sacks's Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City before World War I records the difficult experiences ...

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