This website offers a collection of oral history interviews,
images, videos, and scholarship on various aspects of the
history of Harlem. It is divided into three main sections. "Arts
and Culture" has six exhibits that include two video interviews
focusing on Harlem's artists, writers, and musicians; oral
history interviews with A. Phillip Randolph on the Harlem
Renaissance and Dorothy Height on Harlem's theatrical scene; and
a multimedia presentation on the Harlem Renaissance. "The
Neighborhood" provides seven exhibits that include an oral-
history interview with the first African American patrolman in
New York City, an essay and video on the architecture and
development of Harlem, an e-seminar about classic New York
ethnic neighborhoods, an essay on the decline of Jewish Harlem,
Bayard Rustin's reflections on different ethnic groups with
economic interests in Harlem, and civil rights leader Dorothy
Height's description of changes in Harlem and her attachment to
the neighborhood. "Politics" offers four exhibi