After the Harlem race riots of 1935 and 1943 came "New York's Night of Birmingham Horror." Just weeks after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson ...
Despite its temporary closure, the Studio Museum in Harlem regularly holds events in the neighborhood and exhibits in other ...
During this period, neighborhoods such as Harlem, the South Bronx ... Brownsville is also among New York ghetto areas. Its ...
Bedford-Stuyvesant New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant is in many way worse off than Harlem. Although it is bigger it has received far less attention than the "glamor ghetto" to the north. But it has a ...