When Harlem Was in Vogue
- ISBN-10
- 0140263349
- ISBN-13
- 9780140263343
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 448
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997-06-01
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- David Levering Lewis
Description
"A major study...one that thorougly interweaves the philosophies and fads, the people and movements that combined to give a small segment of Afro America a brief place in the sun."—The New York Times Book Review.
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