Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars by Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, Graham White

Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars

Shane White, Stephen Garton, Stephen Robertson, Graham White

nonfiction history race challenging informative slow-paced

320 pages | first published 2010

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The phrase "Harlem in the 1920s" evokes images of the Harlem Renaissance, or of Marcus Garvey and soapbox orators haranguing crowds about politics and race. Yet the most ubiquitous feature of Harlem life between the world wars was the game of "num...
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