Harlem

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This paper discusses the social times and the culture of New York's Harlem. It particularly focuses on the key influences on Harlem's social and cultural atmosphere from 1920 through 1960. It looks at the political, artistic, cultural figures and events of that period and discusses the social and political movements of the time. The paper describes how the area changed over these four decades.

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"In addition, that exclusivity combined especially with and leading to a distinct African-American nationalism reinforced politically by Malcolm X and others, both encouraged and supported various key social, political, and cultural African American voices of change up to about 1960. At that point, the more mainstream, Southern-led Civil Rights movement increased substantially in nationwide activism and overall popularity, also subsuming Harlem-based, more cerebral, philosophically-based; intellectual and radical black movements arguably inflected with Harlem Renaissance era-ways of thinking. Its very uniqueness, however; geographically; historically; racially; politically; artistically; intellectually and otherwise, put(s) Harlem for better or worse well outside the American mainstream: then; now, and ever."

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