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70 Fifth Avenue

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70 Fifth Avenue served as headquarters for the NAACP and as the early home of numerous other progressive, human rights, and civil liberties organizations. It also housed W.E.B. Dubois' The Crisis magazine, a platform for civil rights advocacy and for writers Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen, among others.
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