Harlem History

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	"Can we think of another neighborhood in the world that has the kind of resonance that Harlem has? Greenwich Village, and neighborhoods in London, but I think it's hard to beat Harlem." —Robert O'Meally 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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Bayard Rustin addressing a crowd addressing a crowd, 1965.

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Bayard Rustin was active in many aspects of the national labor and civil-rights movement beginning in the 1940s. He was a key organizer of the March on Washington and the Montgomery bus boycotts beforehand. His observations of the racial and ethnic breakdown of Harlem commerce reflect the time the oral-history interview was conducted (1985).

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