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  2. Harlem Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural revival of African-American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, politics and scholarship centered in Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, spanning the 1920s and 1930s. [1] At the time, it was known as the " New Negro Movement ", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited ...

  3. History of Harlem - Wikipedia

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    1637–1866. Before the arrival of European settlers, the area that would become Harlem (originally Haarlem) was inhabited by the Manhattans, a native tribe, who along with other Native Americans, most likely Lenape [1] occupied the area on a semi-nomadic basis. As many as several hundred farmed the Harlem flatlands. [2]

  4. Harlem - Wikipedia

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    212, 332, 646, and 917. Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and Central Park North on the south. The greater Harlem area encompasses several other neighborhoods and extends west and north to ...

  5. Sugar Hill, Manhattan - Wikipedia

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    Sugar Hill is a National Historic District in the Harlem and Hamilton Heights neighborhoods of Manhattan, New York City, [3] bounded by West 155th Street to the north, West 145th Street to the south, Edgecombe Avenue to the east, and Amsterdam Avenue to the west. [4] The equivalent New York City Historic Districts are: The Federal district was ...

  6. Great Migration (African American) - Wikipedia

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    Over 10,000 African American men and women demonstrated in Harlem, New York. Conflicts continued post World War I, as African Americans continued to face conflicts and tension while the African American labor activism continued. In the late summer and autumn of 1919, racial tensions became violent and came to be known as the Red Summer.

  7. New York and Harlem Railroad - Wikipedia

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    1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The New York and Harlem Railroad (now the Metro-North Railroad 's Harlem Line) was one of the first railroads in the United States, and was the world's first street railway. [1] [2] Designed by John Stephenson, it was opened in stages between 1832 and 1852 between Lower Manhattan Island to and beyond Harlem.

  8. Stephanie St. Clair - Wikipedia

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    Stephanie St. Clair (December 24, 1897 in Martinique, French Caribbean – December 1969) was a racketeer who ran numerous enterprises in Harlem, New York in the early 20th century. St. Clair resisted the Mafia 's interests for several years after Prohibition ended; she became a local legend for her public denunciations of corrupt police and ...

  9. Lenox Avenue - Wikipedia

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    Commissioned. March 1811. Lenox Avenue – also named Malcolm X Boulevard; both names are officially recognized – is the primary north–south route through Harlem in the upper portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan. This two-way street runs from Farmers' Gate at Central Park North ( 110th Street) to 147th Street.