Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spanish Harlem." The Okies were mainly California's problem. The problem of the Puerto Ricans is chiefly New York's; more than 90% of them land in New York City. Estimates are that 350,000 are now in burgeoning colonies in Manhattan, Brooklyn and The Bronx. The worst congestion is in "Spanish Harlem," a slum of old, dark, dirt-crusted, cold-water tenements on Manhattan's upper East Side...
...Spanish Harlem has become one of the most densely peopled places in the western world. Social workers have often found as many as 20 men, women & children living in a single four-room flat. Beds are used in shifts. By day, the area's streets teem with children. In almost every block there is a sidewalk gambling game. By night, the streets crawl with idlers and men & women back from jobs as dishwashers, laundry helpers, needle-workers. The average wage for Spanish Harlem: about $30 a week...
Some of Puerto Rico's economic D.P.s have already gone back to their land, discouraged by what they find in the U.S. But the great majority hold on; bad as Harlem is, it is better than life in Puerto Rico. Hundreds of the migrants save enough in a year to make bargain-rate flights back to San Juan, only to return to New York with their relatives...
...aspect of the North's new responsibility: in Manhattan's overcrowded Harlem slums, venereal disease is up 188% (to 38 cases per 1,000) since...
This week Evans and his partners (Saylor and three other Record men) brought out All-Negro Comics, a 48-page, 15? monthly, the first to be drawn by Negro artists and peopled entirely by Negro characters. Its star: "Ace Harlem," a Dick Tracy-like detective. The villains were a couple of zoot-suited, jive-talking Negro muggers, whose presence in anyone else's comics might have brought up complaints of racial "distortion." Since it was all in the family, Evans thought no Negro readers would mind...