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3-Alarm Fire Breaks Out In Harlem, FDNY Says
HARLEM, NY — A three-alarm fire erupted in a stretch of buildings in Harlem on Wednesday night, New York City Fire Department officials said. The fire started at a building at 108 West 139th ...
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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 ...