Apollo Theater Foundation, Inc. Foreword / Richard D. Parsons and Jonelle Procope The Apollo: a place of possibility / Lonnie G. Bunch III Growing up with the Apollo / Smokey Robinson James Brown live at the Apollo / Greg Tate The godfather of soul, finally at rest / Herb Boyd 1. Black metropolis: New York City's Harlem, 1914 to 1934. City of refuge: early Harlem / David Levering Lewis The long road traveled to Harlem's Apollo / James V. Hatch Spotlight: the empress Bessie Smith / Karen Chilton James Reese Europe's Band's triumphant return to Harlem / Robert G. O'Meally Popular dance of the 1920s and early '30s: from animal dance crazes to the lindy hop / Thomas F. DeFrantz 2. New Deal, new swing: the Apollo Theater in the 1930s and 1940s. It's showtime! The birth of the Apollo Theater / Tuliza Fleming Impresario Frank Schiffman / John Edward Hasse Heyday of the big bands / John Edward Hasse Great jazz and pop singers / John Edward Hasse A people's theater / Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr. Spotlight: Ella Fitzgerald at the Apollo / Willard Jenkins Pioneering comedians / Mel Watkins Tap and the Apollo Theater / Zita Allen The Apollo chorus girls / Zita Allen The Apollo Theater and the chitlin circuit / Mark Anthony Neal African Americans and World War II / Robert L. Allen
3. The soul of the Apollo: the Apollo Theater in the 1950s and 1960s. The Apollo's golden years / Herb Boyd
The gospel caravan / Joyce Marie Jackson
Spotlight: Dionne Warwick: working the Apollo / Ted Fox
Bobby Schiffman remembers / Ted Fox
The Apollo and civil rights / Herb Boyd
Harlem, black creativity, and black consciousness / Amiri Baraka
Popular African American dance of the 1950s and '60s / Thomas F. DeFrantz
Stand-up comedy / Mel Watkins
Modern jazz at the Apollo / Willard Jenkins
4. A changing Harlem, a changing Apollo: the Apollo Theater in the 1970s and 1980s. The Apollo adapts to a changing world / David Hinckley
Spotlight: the queen of soul / Herb Boyd
Up south at the Apollo: funk takes center stage in the 1960s and '70s / Kandia Crazy Horse
Latin music at the Apollo / Christopher Washburne
Spotlight: Celia Cruz / Christopher Washburne
5. A new Apollo for a new Harlem: the Apollo Theater in the 1990s and 2000s. An anchor in Harlem: Apollo, more than a theater / David J. Maurrasse
Rap music and hip-hop culture / Mark Anthony Neal
Spotlight: Savion Glover / Zita Allen
Nightbirds at the Apollo: the legendary Labelle reunites in splendor / Kandia Crazy Horse.
