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1.)During the enormous influx of European immigrants in the late nineteenth century. Abandoned by the Native white middle class. Harlem then became an African- American neighborhood. Many more arrived during the First World War. The great migration brought hundreds and thousands of African- Americans.

2.)W. E. B Du Bois born on February 23, 1868. He was a Civil rights activist, Sociologist, Historian, Author, and Editor. He tried and did everything he could to help stop twentieth century racism. In1896, Du Bois became the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvardersity. Although Du Bois had originally believed that social science could provide the knowledge to solve the race problem, he gradually came to the conclusion that in a climate of virulent racism, expressed in such evils as lynching, peonage, disfranchisement, Jim Crow segregation laws, and race riots, social change could be accomplished only through agitation and protest. The community was very differnt then today. Such as, signs everywhere for the black and whites. Different schools, buses, resturants. Racial comments and harsh things were done to the colored.



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