Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jews in Harlem...
...result is abnormally high food prices, demanded and obtained because segregated Negroes cannot trade elsewhere. And Harlem's housing problem is an open scandal. The Urban League, estimating that 50% of an employed Negro's income must go for rent, has found that Harlem rentals are from 15% to 20% higher than those in the corresponding poor quarters of the city's French, Germans, Italians, Jews. High rents mean unhealthy "doubling up" of families. So, while Harlem's broad, clean streets make a better appearance than those of Yorkville or Little Italy, the district...
Malnutrition and overcrowding have caused an appalling health situation. Whereas the general city death rate is less than 11 per 1,000, Harlem's is 18.15 and in its worst section ("the sore spot") the rate reaches 21. Tuberculosis causes 60 deaths out of every 1,000 in the city at large. Harlem's figure of 191 in 1929 has climbed to 250 since Depression...
...against such evils, a quarter of a million Negroes must rely on an extraordinarily feeble collection of politicians of their own race. Tammany runs Harlem politically, parcels out a few appointive jobs to Negroes. In the district are one Negro police lieutenant, a Negro acting school superintendent, a Negro tax commissioner, two Negro judges, a Negro Civil Service commissioner, two Negro district attorneys. But in elective offices, Harlem has scant representation: two members of the Board of Aldermen, two State Assemblymen. Holding a balance of power last week, Harlem's two Assemblymen managed to defeat Governor Lehman...
President of the Manhattan local is Rev. Dr. David M. Cory, Brooklyn Presbyterian who won his labor spurs and a mauling by police when he picketed the Brooklyn Edison Co. two years ago. Vice President is Rev. William Lloyd Imes, Negro pastor of Harlem's St. James Presbyterian Church. Others of the 75 union members: Rabbis Israel Goldstein, Alexander Lyons and Sidney Goldstein; Dean Henry Pitney Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary; Presbyterian Rev. Cameron P. Hall; Methodist Rev. F. Theodore Minor. Least parochial to carry a union card is Rev. James Myers, able researcher, idealistic unionizer, industrial secretary...