UNIA Parade

UNIA Parade, organized in Harlem, 1924; [One of the slogans carried in the parade; Harlem, corner of the 135th Street and Lenox Avenue. The Harlem Renaissance is regarded as the major and first cultural movement of African Americans which took place in a period between 1917 and 1935 throughout the USA. 

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The Cotton Club in Harlem, New York, 1923 to 1940,  Harlem Renaissance,  James Van Der Zee, Photographer 

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Harlem, New York City By Martine Barrat 

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Oliver Hardy

Oliver Hardy was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia (January 18, 1892 - August 7, 1957) and preferred to not stay in school but to go to the vaudeville houses and study the onstage antics of many different groups. Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor famous as one half of Laurel and Hardy, the classic double act that began in the era of silent films and lasted nearly 30 years, from 1927 to 1955.

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What’s known as the “Great Migration,” the mass movement of African Americans from the south to northern cities, saw 200,000 African Americans claiming New York–specifically Harlem–as their new place of residence. As a result, Harlem became a cultural hub for dynamic jazz and blues as well as a platform for rising jazz artists.

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Beret-clad African American girls minding babies in carriages in Harlem. Photograph by Dorien Leigh. New York City, 1934.

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