What is the setting of "Harlem" by Langston Hughes?

It is vitally important to remember that this poem is set
during the Great Depression of the 1930s, a time of unprecedented want and poverty,
which of course imapcted those who were looked down upon by society--African
Americans--the worst. It was a time when even the slightest of price rises could herald
disaster for poor families trying to make ends meet and a time when being black usually
involved a crushing lack of opportunity and poverty with little chance of gaining
employment to earn money. The writers of the Harlem Renaissance reacted to the
discrimination that they and their neighbours who lived in Harlem faced in their work,
and this poem powerfully evokes the economic and emotional distress of African Americans
living in Harlem, "On the edge of hell," facing the brute and harsh realities of
discrimination and lack of opportunity. Note how the price rises are refered
to:

Now when
the man at the corner store

Says sugar's gone up another
two cents,

And bread one,

And
there's a new tax on cigarettes--

We remember the job we
never had,

Never could
get,

And can't have
now

Because we're
coloured.

Note the tone of
anger and indignation that accompanies these lines as the speaker tries to express his
pent up frustration and rage at the situation that he, and so many others like him,
face.