Underneath a Harlem moon : the Harlem to Paris years of Adelaide Hall
This volume is the biography of Adelaide Hall, considered to be the missing link in Harlem's Renaissance, historically the richest period of American black culture. This book takes the reader from Adelaide's birth in Brooklyn through her humble childhood in Harlem; from her triumphs on Broadway to the glamour of Paris's Moulin Rouge. She pushed down the barriers that had previously prevented black entertainers from reaching mass recognition. She received extraordinary media attention on both sides of the Atlantic for her starring role in "Blackbirds" in 1928 which turned her into what can only be termed the first modern-day international black female superstar. The story of Adelaide's life concludes with her mysterious disappearance in November 1938, which has never been publicly explained completely
Print Book, English, 2003
Continuum, New York, 2003