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Founded in the 17th century as a Dutch outpost, Harlem developed into a farming village, a revolutionary battlefield, a resort town, a commuter town, a center of African-American culture, a ghetto, and a gentrified neighborhood. 1637–1866.
5. Juni 2024 · Harlem, district of New York City, occupying a large part of northern Manhattan. In 1658 it was established as the settlement Nieuw Haarlem, named after Haarlem in the Netherlands. In the 20th century it was the center of the creative literary development called the Harlem Renaissance.
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Grand theaters from the late 19th and early 20th centuries were torn down or converted to churches. Harlem lacked any permanent performance space until the creation of the Gatehouse Theater in an old Croton aqueduct building on 135th Street in 2006.
Harlem was originally settled by the Dutch in 1658, but was largely farmland and undeveloped territory for approximately 200 years. As New York’s population grew, residential and commercial expansion moved northward, and development of the Harlem territory was evitable.
14. Juni 2024 · The Harlem Renaissance was a phase of a larger New Negro movement that had emerged in the early 20th century and in some ways ushered in the civil rights movement of the late 1940s and early 1950s.
24. Feb. 2022 · Harlem’s growth into a cultural center was spurred by the Great Migration—a decades-long exodus of Black Southerners to northern metropolises that began around 1915.
Harlem History presents a wealth of archival treasures and scholarship from Columbia about the history of one of the world's most famous and influential neighborhoods. Throughout the twentieth century, Harlem has served as the home and key inspiration to generations of novelists, poets, musicians, and actors.
