USA300H1 Quiz: USA300 Reading Review 8-11.docx
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Author"s key points and arguments ra short history of the. Increase of blacks in northern cities caused tensions: the development of ghettos, harlem= desperate housing shortage landlords converted houses into boarding rooms, properties began to deteriorate, black were treated bad in northern cities, marcus garvey: founded universal negro. Improvement association: some questioned his motives and legitimacy, he was a horrible business man, ghettos produced advantages for blacks: enabled them to elect governmental representatives, etc. , and freed them from the growing problems of the south, harlem was the biggest black community in the north, lead to harlem renaissance , a cultural movement of the african american population, harlem = negro metropolis (a city within a city, harlem provided for negro population a more modern, airy, sunny area then they ever lived before, harlem was overbuilt, landlords had trouble finding tenants, proposal was made to fill them with colored tenants to keep the apartments filled, white tenants relocated (the negro migration to.
