NEW YORK — On a recent tour with Fordham University’s , participants could see South Bronx streets and neighborhoods that have a strong connection to Black culture and New York City history.
Professor Mark Naison said that after the Great Depression, landlords needed Black people to move to South Bronx communities. There were many vacant apartments at the time.
“It was a neighborhood that was largely Jewish, but filled with activists, trade unionists, socialists, communists,” Naison said. “They put up signs that said, ‘We rent to select colored families.’ They were put in the Amsterdam News and windows.”
“Middle class Black families that wanted better schools, better housing, better
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