“It tells what happens to an intelligent Negro who discovers that he has, within American society, no future,” observed the Times review. “And it tells in the most powerful and precise terms what this really means—the systematized destruction of Negro self-esteem as an almost automatic function of white society.”

FOR 102 YEARS, THE REMAINS of Columbus were housed in Havana. They were placed at the Havana Cathedral in 1796, when France took over Hispaniola. In 1898, when Cuba freed itself of Spanish dominion, they sent his ashes with them. In the Bahamas, Discovery Day, in honor of Columbus, was celebrated until 2012, when it was replaced by National Heroes

There was also a community of Black Miamians in Liberty City, and one in Coconut Grove, though there, in the early twentieth century, Bahamian culture predominated. In the late 1920s, Zora Neale Hurston visited Miami and was delighted to witness a Bahamian dance. This prompted her to travel to the Bahamas,…

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Memphis, like Chicago, was a Great Migration destination for African Americans from Mississippi. One train line took folks from Mississippi to Memphis or Chicago. Another took folks from Alabama to Detroit.