As part of the great migration of African Americans from the South to northern cities, some 200,000 African Americans moved ...

An aeriel view of downtown Manhattan from the 1920s features an elevated train track, a much wider Battery Park, and the South Ferry Terminal.FPG/Getty ImagesNew York City was the epicenter of ...

from the late 1920s to the early 1970s) New York had been an American-born city, especially after the "golden door" described by New York poet Emma Lazarus had been shut tight in 1924 by federal ...

In 1900, the newly consolidated city was home to 3,437,202 people, according to New York state Census data. In 1920, that number grew to 5,620,048; of this total, well over 40% were first-or ...