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- Harlem History. Columbia University. 2004. http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/harlem_history/ -Created to mark the 250th anniversary of Columbia University. Its content–which reflects the efforts of people across the University–will remain online through 2005.
- "Have you read Ann Petry?" Harlem History: Arts & Culture: Farah Griffin.
http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/harlem_history/griffin.html
Farah Griffin, director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies and professor of English and comparative literature and African-American studies, discusses Harlem through the eyes of Ann Petry, a novelist, journalist, and social activist, who wrote about life in Harlem during the 1930s and 1940s.
- Riker, James. Harlem (City of New York) : its origin and early annals, prefaced by home scenes in the fatherlands, or, notices of its founders before emigration ; also, sketches of numerous families, and the recovered history of the land-titles. New York, 1881.
http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ANY6388
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (NYPL)
http://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg
- "In Motion: The African American Migration Experience.
http://www.inmotionaame.org
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