【单选题】

When some nineteenth-century New Yorkers said "Harlem", they meant almost all of Manhattan aboveEighty-sixth Street. Toward the end of the century, however, a group of citizens in upper Manhattan—wanting, perhaps, to shape a closer and more precise sense of community— designated a section that they wished to be known as Harlem. The chosen area was the Harlem to whichBlacks were moving in the first decades of the new century as they left their old settlements on the middle and lower blocks of the West Side.

As the community became predominantlyBlack, the very word "Harlem" seemed to lose its old meaning.At times, it was easy to forget that "Harlem" was originally theDutch name "Harrlem", that the community it described had been founded by people from Holland; and that for most cites three centuries—it was first settled in the sixteen hundred it had been occupied by White New Yorkers. "Harlem" became synonymous withBlack life andBlack style in Manhattan.Blacks living there used the word as though they had coined it themselves—not only to designate their area of residence but to express their sense of the various of its life and atmosphere.As the years passed, "Harlem" assumed an even larger meaning. In the words ofAdamClayton Powell, the pastor of theAbyssinianBaptistChurch, Harlem "became the symbol of liberty and the promised land to the Negroes.Everywhere".
By 1919, Harlem’s population had grown by several thousanD、It had received its share of wartime migration from the South, theCaribbean, and parts of colonialAfricA、Some of the new arrivals merely lived in Harlem. It was New York they had come to, looking for jobs and for all the other legendary opportunities of life in the city. To others who migrated to Harlem, New York was merely the city in which they found themselves; Harlem was exactly where they wished to be.
What can be inferred from the passageA．Harlem was the poorest district in Manhattan.
B．White New Yorkers had no influence on Harlem’s history.
C．AllBlacks wished to settle in this promised lanD、
D．Harlem was highly regarded byBlacks.