In both "The Politics of Disorder: Re-examining Harlem's Riots of 1935 and 1943" by Cheryl Greenberg and “Harlem: Dark Weather-Vane” by Alain Locke, I felt that a reoccuring point they both talk about is the fact that the blacks in Harlem had no way to channel their unrest and anger. It was because of this that all of their anger combine was unleashed at once. While reading the piece I could not help but think of a wave. Just like a wave along the shore, the discontentment of the black community in Harlem grew bigger and bigger as time passed until it became dangerously too big. The blacks have always been treated unequally and as time passed they realized that they are not helpless. They realized that together they can make a difference and together they had power.

In "The Politics of Disorder: Re-examining Harlem's Riots of 1935 and 1943," Greenberg explains that because many blacks were unhappy, organizations and churches became more active and eventually more African-Americans started to become politically active. Since so much was not being done about the well being of the black community, the people began to protest. Protest physically showed that the people were unhappy, to go to such extent. The Harlemnites had the right to be unhappy because many of their poor living conditions sprang from racial discrimination, class discrimination and lack of promised improvement. Greenberg quoted Black Communist party leader James Ford in saying that conditions can only get better if both black people and white people can work together.

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