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. (jan 1, 1930 – jan 1, 1940)
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jan 1, 1930
jan 1, 1940
~ 10 years