填空题 When some nineteenth century New Yorkers said "Harlem", they meant almost all of Manhattan above Eighty-sixth Street. Toward the end of the century, however, a group of citizens in upper Manhattan—wanting, perhaps, to 21 a closer and more 22 sense of community—designated a section that they wished to have known as Harlem. The 23 area was the Harlem to which Blacks were moving in the first decades of the new century as they left their old settlements on the middle and lower blocks of the West Side.
As the community became predominantly Black, the 24 word "Harlem" seemed to lose its old meaning. At times it was easy to forget that "Harlem" was 25 the people from Holland, and 26 for most of its three centuries—it was first settled in the sixteen hundreds—it had been occupied by White New Yorkers. "Harlem" became synonymous 27 Black life and Black style in Manhattan. Blacks living there used the word as though they had coined it on their own—not only to 28 their area of residence but to express their sense of the various qualities of its life and atmosphere. As the years passed, "Harlem" assumes an even larger meaning. In the words of Adam Clayton Powell, the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem "became the symbol of liberty and the Promised Land to Negroes everywhere" . By 1919 Harlem"s population had grown by several thousands. Some of the new 29 merely lived in Harlem; it was New York that they had come to, looking for jobs and for all the other legendary opportunities of life in the city. To others who 30 to Harlem, New York was merely the city in which they found themselves: Harlem was exactly what they wished to be.
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