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1920s' Harlem Economy

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cultural surge. As African-Americans slowly began to migrate from the racial and war torn south during the late 1800s, New York City was very much segregated by race and ethnic  origin. To fully gain self-reliance in the economic community, African-Americans in Harlem began to form cooperatives which included a vast range of industries and offered the workers bonds and profit  sharing. To accompany this growing industrial economy, an equally growing underground economy boomed as well. People from across the country came to Harlem to partake in the numbers games and  enjoy the huge night club life. During the time when racketeers and gangsters abounded, the underground world employed over 150,000 people and contributed a huge amount to the local economy.  Unfortunately, the economic became greatly diminished when everyone stopped coming to the clubs and the economy dried up during the Great Depression. Since then, the economy has never recovered in  Harlem and everyone is hoping that a recent interest in redeveloping Harlem, will once again bring it back to its former glory of its renaissance.  During the late 1800s and the early 1900s, residential communities in New York City were divided by social class and ethnic origin. Working class immigrants lived in tenements  by the river while the wealthier classes lived uptown. By 1890, massive immigration resulted in over 71% of New Yorkers being either foreign born or were first generation immigrants (Godfrey,  1995). During the early 1900s, African-American migration increased from the Southern states and populated Harlem while recent Jewish immigrants lived on the lower East Side and Irish and Italians settled  on the West Side. New York was becoming the core of the population of the United States and New York City alone contained more that 61% of the population in