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Ways of Knowing
Fall 2008 Final Paper

In many ways, the Black Church has been the organizing epicenter of the Black Community in Harlem in the 20th and even 21st Centuries.

Harlem suffered some of the worst blight, decay, devastation, destruction due to poverty, illiteracy, crime, drugs and neglect especially since the 1950’s.

In the 1950’s Harlem was targeted with the infiltration of the Drug trade through its introduction to heroin. The epidemic of this and other destructive drug usage ravaged the landscape of Harlem throughout the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s. But the death knell for the Harlem community may have been the Crack epidemic of the 1980’s.

Since at least the 1940’s until the present, over 60 years, alcoholism, drugs, illiteracy, crime, blight, neglect and several other factors along the social, cultural, political and economic variety has compromised the community of Harlem and caused its destruction both from within and......

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