Harlem’s Dunbar Apartments were specifically built as the first cooperative building complex marketed to Blacks. Named after poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, the apartments were home to notable figures like W.E.B. Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph,  explorer Matthew Henson, writer Countee Cullen and entertainer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, among others. John D. Rockefeller Jr. built the Dunbar between […]