Harlem Celebrates Its Rebirth after 50 Years — VOA Learning English
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In the 1970s, a lack of community investment resulted in a large number of people leaving Harlem, a well-known New York City neighborhood in northern Manhattan.
Nearly 50,000 people, about a third of the area’s population, left to escape violence, crime and poor living conditions. Among those who left was LeeSandra Moore’s mother who moved to the state of Virginia. “It was a scary time,” said Moore, now 52 and still living in Harlem. “I couldn’t blame her for that.”
Those who stayed were mostly poor, Black families. They lived through unrest that followed the 1964 killing of an unarmed Black teenager and the killings of Black leader Malcolm X in 1965 and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968.
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