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Todd Duncan - first African-American member of the New York City Opera; Wesley Augustus Williams - first African-American officer in the New York Fire Department; William Grant Still's Troubled Island as performed by the New York City Opera - the first black-composed opera to be performed by a major U.S. company
Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Ninevah Beach Subdivisions Historic District (SANS) is an African American beachfront community in Sag Harbor, New York. [2] Founded following World War II, the SANS community served primarily as a summer retreat for middle-class African American families during the post-WWII and Jim Crow era.
The large Black migration to New York City helped cause the Harlem Renaissance, a rich cultural period for the African Americans living in New York (especially in Harlem neighborhood, the namesake) between the end of World War I and the Great Depression. New York's Hispanic population increased by almost twenty times between 1940 and 2010 ...
In the post-World War II era, Harlem ceased to be home to a majority of the city's blacks, [116] but it remained the cultural and political capital of black New York, and possibly black America. [ 117 ] [ 118 ] The character of the community changed in the years after the war, as middle-class blacks left for the outer boroughs (primarily the ...
Modern New York traces its development to the consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898 and an economic and building boom following the Great Depression and World War II. Throughout its history, New York has served as a main port of entry for many immigrants , and its cultural and economic influence has made it one of the most important urban ...
He establishes the first school that was open to African-Americans in New York City. [17] [18] 1709 – Founding of Trinity School (New York City), oldest continuously operated school in New York City. 1711 – Formal slave market established at Wall Street and the East River. 1712 – April: New York Slave Revolt of 1712. 1723 – Population ...
San Juan Hill was a community in what is now the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the Upper West Side in Manhattan, New York City. Its residents were mostly African-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Puerto Rican, and comprised one of the largest African-American communities in New York before World War I.
Bus operator New York City Omnibus Corporation goes bankrupt and its operations are taken over by the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority. The Bronx Council on the Arts is established. 1963 The revised (1963) New York City Charter creates community boards within each borough. [62] Cross Bronx Expressway completed.