African American poetics as well as all kinds of art and literature blossomed in a ghetto of New York called Harlem, where black artists began to write and make art of the subject of African Americas" share of the apple called "America". ... So I wrote a poem about it called "Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria," modeled after an ad in Vanity Fair announcing the opening of New York's greatest hotel. ...
"After the death of his stepfather, he returned to New York where he settled in Greenwich Village, and was determined to concentrate on his writing" (World Book Encyclopedia, pg. 31). Baldwin's interests went from being an activist in the civil rights movement, to book reviewer and essayist for New York periodicals, to international celebration as literary artist. ... ther he was the Medgar Evers or James Meredith in Mississippi, at a session with Robert Kennedy in New York, on a speaking tour for the Congress of Racial Equality, or helping in the voter registration in Alabama, Baldwin...
In 1945, Starling boarded the Silver Meteor bound for New York. ... Once trapped in the ghetto it became exceedingly challenging to evade, and when the Gladney's were finally able to move into a house in a white area, all of the whites fled to the suburbs leaving the area crime infested and drug ridden. ...
It was at this time that Baldwin published his first essay, "The Harlem Ghetto". ... The Harlem Ghetto's echo, The Fire Next Time (1963) was another grueling and spiteful account of racism in the United States. ... He also began to write of his newfound observations of New York intellectuals and the racial and sexual tension among them in, Another Country (1962). ...
In Boston, Malcolm was more attracted to the street life in the Ghetto surroundings rather than his sister's upper class society in Roxbury, a city in Boston. ... After awhile he leaves and begins to work on the railroad, this eventually led to his first trip in New York City. He eventually lives in Harlem, New York. ... He is appointed minister by Muhammad for the New York City Temple" ("Malcolm X....
Life in the ghettos of the big industrialised cities was characterised by social discrimination and de facto se-gregation. ... The masses in the northern ghettos were frustrated and hopeless because of the social discrimination and de facto segregation they experienced daily. ...
Social scientists have documented the rebellious spirit and acts of protest by blacks as they lay shackled in the holds of slave ships, labored in the fields of southern landowners, and settled into the urban ghettos. ... The NAACP had been founded in New York eight years earlier and had previously focused most of its organizing in the North. ...
The rise of black ghettos in northern and western cities may have complicated the problems of segregation and discrimination, but they also were grounds for encouragement for movements like the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and 1930s. This literary, artistic, and intellectual movement, centered in New York's Harlem, kindled a new African-American cultural identity by celebrating black traditions and the black voice. ...
