Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's Harlem one afternoon last week a dusky little Puerto Rican of 16 wandered past the cutlery counter in a Kress 5-10-25? store on 125th Street . Into Lino Rivera's kinky, stocking-capped head popped the notion of stealing a penknife to match his pen & pencil set at home. Into the pocket of Lino Rivera's leather coat a moment later popped the 10? knife...
There the affair would probably have ended had not a mischiefmaking band of youthful Harlem Reds calling themselves the Young Liberators seized upon the incident as material for a demonstration. They quickly issued hundreds of mimeographed handbills crying...
...hurriedly passed out among the throngs of Negro idlers up & down teeming 125th Street. Believing that one of their own race had been victimized, a black rabble of 3,000 marched to the Kress store. Orators hoisted themselves up to shout against the additional injustice of white storekeepers in Harlem refusing to employ Negro help. Squads of white police arrived on the scene to be met with a barrage of stones and bottles. Before long three officers were hospitalized. Thereupon, the police waded in roughly with nightsticks, made arrests right & left. At this critical point a hearse drove up, destined...
Dolefully Rev. Major J. ("Father") Divine, evangelist to whites and Negroes in New York's lusty Harlem (TIME, Dec. 25, 1933 et seq.), admitted: "No, I am not God, but millions of people think I am and I'd like them to believe...
Typical was the case which brought the Harlem Messiah into Children's Court. A school principal had complained that a 14-year-old Negro girl had been taken by her mother to live in a Divine "Heaven" in Harlem. Justice Panken sent the child to live with a sister, sent the mother to Bellevue Hospital after she put on a typical Divinery. Writhing, gesticulating, the woman fell to the courtroom floor screaming: "Father Divine...