This photo-poetic collaboration by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes portrays everyday life in Harlem in the late 1940s and early 1950s. DeCarava’s photographs of children, teenagers, families, subway riders, picket lines, and artists’ workspaces are paired with Hughes’s fictional narration by Sister Mary Bradley, a grandmother whose voice guides the book’s depiction of a vibrant city within a city. First published in 1955, this Heritage Edition includes an afterword by Sherry Turner DeCarava on the book’s history and significance.
