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1920

The Harlem Renaissance. Through the 1920s Harlem becomes the largest Black community in the United States and the centre of American Black culture, producing Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington, Countee Cullen and Aaron Douglas.

The Modern City era

  1. 27 October 1904
  2. 25 March 1911
  3. 1916
  4. 1920
  5. 23 October 1929
  6. 1 May 1931
  7. 1934
  8. 28 June 1969
  9. 1969
  10. 4 April 1973
  11. 30 October 1975
  12. 11 September 2001
  13. 29 October 2012
  14. 1 January 2017
  15. 1 March 2020

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