Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...situa tions. Not altogether undeserved was his arrest as a vagrant. During the campaign he has traveled 26,000 miles, mostly in day coaches, shuttling about the country, visiting 26 States. Last week, while Negro James W. Ford, Communist Vice-Presidential Nominee, was hopping about to Nashville, Richmond, Durham, Harlem, Earl Browder decided to play return engagements at his two most successful stands. Of his first visit to Terre Haute he said: "That speech ... I didn't get to make . . . was the most successful I ever made in my life." Back to that Indiana city therefore went...
Meanwhile Mr. Rockefeller was tacitly admitting failure in another and more famed apartment project, the Paul Lawrence Dunbar Apartments for Negroes. Built by Mr. Rockefeller in 1927 as a low-cost, co-operative housing venture to provide decent living quarters for a small fraction of Harlem's black population, the handsomely-gardened buildings occupy a full block, bounded by Seventh and Eighth Avenues, 149th and 150th Streets. They contain 511 apartments, largely units of four and five rooms. Adhering to the Rockefeller tradition of philanthropy with a purpose, Mr. Junior planned not only to house disadvantaged Negroes but also...
...Harlem sages shook their heads dolefully last week over what they regarded as one more failure of private capital to cope with the social and economic problems of Negroes. From the beginning the Dunbar Apartments rocked precariously on deep tremors of Negro sensitiveness. Rentals were planned at $9 per room per month, to enable Negro workers to support their families without doubling up in the usual Harlem manner of two or three families to an apartment. The rooms were small, the construction poor. To meet maintenance and amortization charges the rents were finally set at $11.50 to $17.50 per month...
...absence of any statement of Mr. Rockefeller's intentions, Harlem optimists were predicting last week that he planned to buy the property at foreclosure sale, reorganize it, install better management, set lower rentals. Although Mr. Rockefeller once turned down an offer to sell out to the New York Housing Authority, it was reported last week that he might yet turn the venture over to the public as part of the new $4,700,000 Harlem River housing development, now being built at the end of 7th Avenue on ground which Mr. Rockefeller originally planned to include...
...most striking picture in the current showing is that of Reginald Marsh, "High Yaller". This depicts a tall negro beauty striding down a Harlem street clad in her best Sunday finery. A dress of extraordinarily bright yellow contrasts strikingly with the grimness of the brownstone steps before which she passes and with the dusky hue of her skin. The modeling of the statesque figure is most carefully and wonderfully done, thereby achieving a most vivid sense of motion and a swinging gait...