Jim Crow in New York in the 1930 and 40s

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. represented Harlem, New York City, in the United States House of Representatives (1945–71). He was the first person of African-American descent elected to Congress from New York.
He organized with Ben Davis mass meetings, rent strikes, and public campaigns forcing companies and utilities and Harlem Hospital to hire black workers.In 1941, a bus boycott led to the hiring of 200 black workers by the Transit Authority