Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of Harlem Negroes God is (1 Aimee Semple McPherson, 2 Father Coughlin, 3 William Sunday, 4 Father Divine, 5 Wilbur Glenn Voliva...
Prodigious at more than music is this Harlem-born daughter of a white mother and a coal-black father (TIME, Aug 26). Mrs. Schuyler paints, writes for Negro newspapers. George Schuyler was a day laborer and a dishwasher before he became a novelist (Black No More, Slaves Today), a contributor to American Mercury and Saturday Evening Post. All three Schuylers subsist on raw vegetables, raw meat, a diet which Mrs. Schuyler claims is largely responsible for her daughter's precocity. At two Philippa amazed the neighbors by reading, writing her name, spelling 150 long words. At four her spelling...
...social gospel. The United Free Church of Scotland's James Moffatt, famed for his translation of the Bible into modern English, specializes in church history. Congregationalist Robert Ernest Hume teaches comparative religions which he keeps up to date by such studies as the one he lately made of Harlem's Father Divine (TIME, March 16). Of Roman Catholicism students may learn by attending lectures by priests outside-a concession which avoids raising the question of whether 'the priests could expound their church's views on Union's "unhallowed" ground...
Lead Belly was in Manhattan last week about to appear in a Harlem vaudeville theatre when Researcher Lomax again made news with another singing convict. This one was James ("Ironhead'') Baker, a Negro who had been sentenced to life imprisonment in Texas. At John Lomax' request Governor James V. Allred granted Baker a furlough to tour as a minstrel, visit penitentiaries in Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, sing his songs so that other convicts will understand what Lomax wants for his folk-song files in the Library of Congress...
Meantime Clilan Bethany Powell, famed Harlem roentgenologist, had become a Victory director, hoping that the company would at last turn out to be a thoroughly sound Negro insurance company. Flourishing on the fact that big white life companies discriminate against black risks because of the higher mortality rate among Negroes, the Negro insurance company has, on the. whole, had a sorry record. It was largely through the efforts of Director Powell and his friends, that Victory had been able to enter the rich insurance market of Harlem. After Victory went into receivership, Director Powell succeeded in working out a reorganization...