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Introduction

PART I: COMING OF AGE ON THE BRINK OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

1“To Hustle While You’re Waiting”

2“A Gilded, but Gritty Age”

PART II: TWENTIETH CENTURY UNLIMITED

3“If We Cannot Go Forward, Let Us Mark Time”

4Fraternity and Ascendancy

5Harlem Exodus to the Bronx and to the Sea

6War at Home and Abroad

PART III: HARLEM RENAISSANCE

7“A Sweet Spot in Harlem Known as Strivers’ Row”

8The Black Decade

9Testaments in Transit

PART IV: CELEBRITY HOUSE

10Bandwidths

11Moving to the Dunbar

PART V: ECLIPSE

12Organized Labor Pains

13“Things Reiterated as the American Way”

14A Second Marriage

Acknowledgments

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index