The effect of unemployment and municipal neglect on Harlem.
When rumors went around that police had
murdered a black Puerto Rican teenager for stealing a ten-cent pocket knife, people started a
protest which turned violant and resulted into three deaths, 125 arrests, and more than two
million dollars in property damage.
Poets from the Harlem Renaissance made a
freat impact on modern and current poetry. (1 gen 1930 anni – 1 gen 1940 anni)