A Man With A Divine Vision
“Let me live in the house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.”
Robert Lawson was born on May 5, 1883 in New Iberia, La. In 1913, Lawson was a well-educated and ambitious young man, considering a career in law, when he suddenly took ill. Continue reading
Harlem Tommy Murphy was born on April 1885. He was part of the history of Irish East Harlem and the history on boxing in America at the turn of the 20th century. Continue reading
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Beauty parlors were the most prevalent form of black business in Harlem in the 1920s and 1930s. A great example is this pioneering beauty entrepreneur Harlem’s Rose Morgan in a 1961 advertisement above for Gleem toothpaste (sorry for the blurriness).
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Harlem’s Marva Trotter Louis, the Chicago stenographer turned model, singer and the first wife of boxing legend Joe Louis and had two children (daughter Jacqueline in 1943 and son Joseph Louis Barrow, Jr. in 1947). Continue reading
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Music producer, author, photographer and former CIA agent, Hank O’Neal has plenty of experiences from which to draw inspiration. It would be easy to assume that it was O’Neal’s stint as a spy that gave him the ability to walk into Harlem homes of jazz legends and come out with amazing stories and photographs. However, it is more likely that it was O’Neal’s love of jazz, knowledge of music and easy-going personality that made 42 musicians pour out personal tales that became The Ghosts of Harlem: Sessions with Jazz Legends (Vanderbilt University Press, July 2009).
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