Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news service reported that blacks were swarming to enlist to fight for Ethiopia: "Chicago leads with 8,000 enrolled; Detroit comes second with 5,000; Kansas City, 2,000; and Philadelphia 1,500." This news was datelined from Manhattan and Afro's correspondent added with some scorn that Harlem had supplied only 850 recruits, "while Boston, the cradle of U. S. freedom and the home of Crispus Attucks, first American to die in the Revolutionary War, has enlisted only...
...WITH PLEASURE. This stumped the Courier but in scores of darktowns persuasive Negroes set themselves up as recruiting agents, offered tempting terms in the name of Power of Trinity, asked from 25? to 50? as an enlistment fee. Meanwhile, on the vague frontier between many a U. S. Harlem and Little Italy, excited black curbstone orators brought scowls to swarthy brows by such appeals as: "Stop buying your gin from Italian saloonkeepers! Every shorty [nip] of gin you buy from an Italian means bullets bought by Mussolini to slaughter our brothers in Africa...
...Addis Ababa, where the Emperor knows perfectly well that famed Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, "The Black Eagle of Harlem," who is always trying to horn into the Ethiopian Air Force (TIME, March 4), is nothing but a chiseler and a clown, His Majesty was constrained in desperation to give Julian an airman's job again. In France meanwhile stray U. S. members of the oldtime Lafayette Escadrille began organizing a flying circus to fight for Power of Trinity, his Minister in Paris promising "plenty of promotions and plenty of decorations" but showing small readiness to advance cash...
...entered the National A. A. U. championships. In 1934 he won the light heavyweight championship in Chicago's Golden Gloves tournament and the National A. A. U. light heavyweight title. Detroit's shrewd Negro Lawyer John Roxborough, with a small fortune made by familiarizing Detroit Negroes with Harlem's "numbers" games, persuaded him to turn professional, hired Jack Blackburn, famed old Philadelphia lightweight, to be his trainer. For his first professional fight, in Chicago's Bacon's Arena just a year ago, Joe Louis received $59. For last week's bout...
Unlike his famed predecessor, Jack Johnson, Joe Louis has no dissipations. For amusement, he listens to the radio, buys ice-cream for his young Detroit cronies, visits cinemas with his sisters whose names are Eulalia, Emmarell, Vunies, Dulcinea. In Manhattan last week, where Harlem Negroes held church services to pray that he would win, Joe Louis was attended by four special Negro policemen for each of whom he bought a present after the fight. Before the fight, he predicted he would knock out Carnera in the fifth round. Carnera predicted he would win in the sixth. When it was over...