Harlem History

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	"Harlem, New York, was a place where for the first time Negroes got out into the mainstream of the dramatic world. You had extraordinarily large dramatic movements." —A. Philip Randolph View Photo Essay


	Special Feature: Treasures from the M. Moran Weston Papers Rarely seen images from a 1945 Negro Freedom Rally are accompanied by video of Professor Manning Marable providing historical background on them. A short slide show of other images from the Weston papers is also included.


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Civil-rights leader and women's activist Dorothy Height.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations

Height describes the community of musicians and actors she met when she moved to Harlem as an New York University student in 1929.

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