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). ...
Good Times appeared on 1974 (Ingram "Good Times") Florida and James Evans were lower middle-class blacks, with their three children in a high-rise ghetto on the south side of Chicago. ... It was about a black family making it to the top in New York City. ... The Huxtable residence, in New York City, where Cliff (an obstetrician) also maintained his office. ...
Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterdays and today's school drop outs are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did and they inevitably move into more and more, worse and worse, illegality and immorality. ...
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. ...
