Sugar Hill

Description:

Rhyming text celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African Americans first called home during the 1920s. Includes brief biographies of jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sonny Rollins, and Miles Davis; artists Aaron Douglas and Faith Ringgold; entertainers Lena Horne and the Nicholas Brothers; writer Zora Neale Hurston; civil rights leader W. E. B. DuBois; and lawyer Thurgood Marshall. Rhyming text celebrates the Harlem neighborhood that successful African Americans first called home during the 1920s.

subjects: Stories in rhyme,  Fiction,  African Americans,  History,  Children's fiction,  African americans, fiction,  Harlem (new york, n.y.), fiction,  New york (n.y.), history, fiction

Places: New York (State),  New York (N.Y.),  New York,  Harlem (New York, N.Y.)

Times: 20th century,  1898-1951