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July 6, 1981

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Harlem—II

Jervis Anderson

Part 2 of Jervis Anderson’s report about the neighborhood’s early development, from the rise of Black-owned businesses and ragtime, to Marcus Garvey and Madam C. J. Walker, the millionaire beautician.