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In 1964, a white, off-duty policeman killed a Black teenager in New York. That led to the now-infamous Harlem race riots.
After the Harlem race riots of 1935 and 1943 came "New York's Night of Birmingham Horror." Just weeks after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson ...
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Joe Louis in Harlem
The New York Daily News, June 23, 1938. When Joe Louis defeated Max Schmeling in a 1938 rematch, the nation celebrated -- and one of the biggest parties was in Harlem. In the famous New York ...