The goal of my paper is to situate “street vending” as a site of popular resistance in the context of a long history of street based activism and community building within African American Communities. The quote I just read, about how street orators transformed Harlem into a “parliament of the people” during and after World War I, may seem tangential in a conference on Street Vending, but the remarks that follow hope to establish its relevance. Robert Hill, “Introduction,” in Marcus Garvey: Lfe and Lessons ( Berkely: University of California Press, 1987) These and other stepladder orators- who began speaking along Lenox Avenue with the arrival of warm weather in 1916 and whose number rapidly grew with each succeeding summer- were the persons, who along with Garvey, converted the black community of Harlem into a parliament of the people during the years of World War I and after.” ‘how come this New Negro? How comes this stunned awakening/’ The ground had been prepared for him by such outspoken voices as those of Hubert H Harrison, A Philip Randolph, Chandler Owen, and WA Domingo. ” (Marcus) Garvey voiced the marvelous nature of his own rise when he asked. The Street as a Site of Political Activism, Entrepreneurship and Community Building in African American History

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