Black pride in Harlem had been exemplified on July 28, 1917, by a parade of ten thousand Negroes silently protesting anti-black violence. In 1919, blacks marched again to celebrate the return of the all-black 369th Infantry from service in World War I. Further, by 1920 Harlem had gained a symbolic significance for blacks which caused it to be referred to as a Mecca by scholars of the period. Harlem was not a ghetto; it was a black city! The books Black Manhattan (1930) by Johnson, and Negro Metropolis (1940) by Claude McKay, as well as the essay Harlem: The Cultural Capital by Alain Locke in The New Negro, offer further evidence that black intellectuals considered Harlem a black capital. yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1978/2/78.02.03.x.html
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