Many settled in the Harlem borough of New York. In the early years of the twentieth century, a labour shortage, mainly in the manufacturing sector, combined with a pervasive racism, which the abolition of slavery had failed to eradicate, lured hundreds of thousands of African Americans north, to the large cities of New York, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Chicago. Read “ Phenomenal Woman.” Watch and hear Angelou read “Phenomenal Woman”. Read “ Still I Rise.” Watch and hear Angelou read “Still I Rise”.
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