The quiet town of Sayville, New York, had its world turned upside down in October 1919, when a mysterious couple purchased a large house on Macon Street. The buyers, the first African-American ...
At 3 o’clock one morning last week in Manhattan, Negroes of all sizes, shapes and shades began gathering at an uptown pier on the Hudson River. Unmolested by police, the blackamoors shouted, stomped, ...
Early 20th-century preacher Father Divine saw himself as God on earth. We take a look at the life and times of the African-American spiritual leader with Princeton University religion professor Albert ...