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I. Introduction As a native New Yorker, I can remember growing up in Harlem on 112th street and St. Nicholas Ave. On this block everyone was treated like a family. My siblings and I would go out and play in the street, because we didn’t have the luxury of a backyard. We would sit on the stoop or just lean out of the window to watch out one another. Although we didn’t have much we were happy. I remember many days sitting on the stoop and wandering why is my block different from the others. I couldn’t understand why the white’s lived in neighborhoods that looked much different from my block. Pop’s, who is my grandfather, came from Jacksonville, Florida. Pop’s would narrate many historical events that took place in Harlem, which brought us to the turning points of Harlem. As I listened to him, I always wondered why was Harlem so famous. I remember him saying how much his life has changed for the better since he moved to New York. Coming from the rural areas of the south was much different from the big urban city. Although New York wasn’t perfect for him it was better then the South. The mistreatment of Blacks in the south sparked the big exodus of African Americans to the North, which eventually led to the