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βHarlem is today the Negro metropolisβ
James Weldon Johnson's "Black Manhattan" traces Black New Yorkers' lives and art from 17th-century New Amsterdam through the Jazz Age, showing the Harlem Renaissance as culmination, not miracle.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
https://everybodyslibraries.com/2025/12/04/harlem-is-today-the-negro-metropolis/
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