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The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order . . . Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade.

Source: The Blacker the Berry, 1929.
-- Wallace Thurman, (Jul 1 1902-1934), US journalist, dramatist, literary editor; His satiric portrait of the Harlem Renaissance period, Infants of the Spring, was perhaps more effective as an acerbic comment than as a novel.

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