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In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty.

Source: City of Refuge, in Atlantic Monthly, Feb 1925.
-- Rudolph Fisher, ( 1897-1934), US novelist, physician; He received a medical degree from Howard, 1924; during the Harlem Renaissance he earned a reputation as an accomplished writer of short fiction.

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