Jan
15
2024
A Look Back at Harlem on MLK Day
MLK Day is as good a time as any to take stock of what the civil rights movement has done for black Americans. This is what a black neighborhood looked like in the dark days of racist oppression:
Here is how Harlem looked in the 1930s
This is real footage
Before the Sixties Govt Programs, before the Social Justice Civil Rights Movement, before MLK pic.twitter.com/l4jB1Vb40r
— Jack Poso (@JackPosobiec) January 14, 2024
Of course that was also before Black Lives Matter.
Here’s what Harlem looks like now:
Some improvement, huh?
On a tip from Wiggins.
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