down present-day Amsterdam Avenue and the IRT (Inter-borough Rapid
Transit) subway line was built in 1904. Throughout the 1900s various ethnic groups migrated to different sections of Harlem, giving more definition to East, West, and Central Harlem.” (NYC Teaching Fellows, 2011) Ultimately, Harlem was transformed through a vast perspective of commonality of ideas and interests among African Americans, who migrated to New York after World War I. The post-world war Harlem, of the 1920’s, was a decade…
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