Harlem Reinssance
As a native New Yorker, I can remember growing up in Harlem on 112th street and St. Nicholas Ave. On this block everyone was treated like a family. My siblings and I would go out and play in the street, because we didn’t have the luxury of a backyard. We would sit on the stoop or just lean out of the window to watch out one another. Although we didn’t have much we were happy. I remember many days sitting on the stoop and wandering why is my block different from the others. I couldn’t understand why the white’s lived in neighborhoods that looked much different from my block. Pop’s, who is my grandfather, came from Jacksonville, Florida. Pop’s would narrate many historical events that took place in Harlem, which brought us to the turning points of Harlem. As I listened to him, I always wondered why was Harlem so famous. I remember him saying how much his life has changed for the better since he moved to New York. Coming from the rural areas of the south was much different from the big urban city. Although New York wasn’t perfect for him it was better then the South. The mistreatment of Blacks in the south sparked the big exodus of African Americans to the North, which eventually led to the
The Harlem Renaissance was a time for African Americans to show and reflect their talents throughout society. It was the time to prove something to the world. Harlem is indeed the great Mecca for the sight-seer, the pleasure-seeker, the curious, the adventurous, the enterprising, the ambitions and the talented of the whole Negro world. Harlem is a city within a city, the greatest Negro city in the world. I can remember my grandfather telling me about his trips up seventh avenue on the bus and looking at the beautiful churches, social and civic centers, shops, theatres and other places of amusement. He talked about the transformation that takes place after he crosses One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth street. Beginning there, those sitting in restaurants, coming out of theatres, standing in doorways and looking out of windows are practically all Blacks; and then he emerges where the population suddenly becomes white again. The only change that takes place is the color of the people.
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