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The Great Migration reaches Harlem
1910
Harlem, Manhattan
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A speculative building glut left Harlem's new flats empty, and a Black realtor named Philip Payton filled them. By 1930 some 200,000 Black New Yorkers lived here, making it the largest Black community in the world outside Africa.
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