Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bands of Negro hoodlums went about bashing in store windows. A few Negro shopkeepers sought immunity with signs saying: COLORED STORE. Some white merchants took this cue to post notices: COLORED HELP EMPLOYED HERE. Vainly a Chinese laundryman pleaded: ME COLORED TOO. Hanging eternally out of their windows, Harlem's less excitable householders saw a Fifth Avenue bus stoned, heard the frightened cries of passengers in a Boston bus as eleven pistol shots thudded into its side. Looting followed the smashing of more than 200 shop windows. And when the looting started, police dropped their nightsticks, took out their...
...discovered in his widowed mother's apartment. He was hastily taken to a police station house, exhibited and photographed to prove that he had not been harmed, then sent home. Following evening Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia circulated thousands of posters throughout the area urging the responsible element in Harlem to make the rest of the neighborhood behave itself. By next day Governor Lehman could tell Harlem's white merchants that the city authorities had the situation well in hand...
...ruckus in the largest Negro centre in the U. S. described as a RACE RIOT. Black citizens did not fight white citizens as they did in the inter-racial affrays at Chicago, East St. Louis, Philadelphia and Washington a decade and a half ago. But last week's Harlem riot was New York City's most violent civil disturbance in 35 years. Whose fault...
...some 40,000 on the middle West Side of Manhattan, was the Negro quarter before the War. The War and post-War industrial boom of 1917-18 brought thousands of unskilled workers North. In New York they spilled out of San Juan Hill into the Italian-Spanish colony of Harlem. By 1920 New York's Negro population had jumped to 250,000. The recession of the boom stranded the blackamoors, changed New York's "Nigger Heaven" into a "Nigger Hell...
Unlike Chicago's Black Belt, Harlem's businesses are run practically without Negro participation. A handful of professional blacks live in the fine old Stanford White block known as Strivers Row. In good times they aped the manners of Park Avenue, subscribed to a social register, gave their daughters debut parties. Theatrical folk like Duke Ellington, sporting characters like Harry Wills, live farther north in Sugar Hill. But even Harlem's unique assets are flagrantly exploited by whites. Jews own the successful colored bands, the Cotton Club, the Savoy Ball Room, all Harlem's saloons...