Harlem Hell Fighters
The first African American National Guard regiment in the state of New York, the “Fifteenth New York,” numbered 2,053 men and 54 officers at the time it was called into ...
Music Industry
The story of black women in the American music industry reflects all the issues of gender, class, and race that have bedeviled Americans throughout their history. Still, black women have ...
Ragtime Reference library
Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present
Ragtime is often considered the popular music that defined the period from 1897 to 1917 in much the same way
Ragtime Reference library
Reid Badger
The Oxford Companion to United States History
the descriptive term for a uniquely American style of popular music and, more broadly, for the time period (ca. 1890–1920...
