Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harlem, Mrs. A. D. Babb had two signs in her window: 1) Midwife; 2) Petite Hand Work...
...Nippers. In Harlem, William Sheppard Jr., 7, and his brother Ronald, 3, killed a half-pint of sherry which they found behind the stove, were discovered unconscious in their beds...
Typical comments of the guests (now back in Harlem...
Beneath "the surface placidity Philadelphians knew that the possibility of real race trouble was present as never before. Philadelphia has 270,000 Negroes, but it has no Harlem: the Negro sections are small, scattered pockets throughout the city. On the first night of the strike, in half-a-dozen sections of Philadelphia, teen-age Negro hoodlums hurled milk bottles through windshields, smashed win dows in stores. Policemen, carrying night sticks for the first time in 18 years and aided by hundreds of civilian-defense volunteers, arrested 300 persons, most of them Negroes...
Died. William Marion Cook, 75, famed pioneer Negro ragtime composer; after long illness; in Harlem. Born in Washington, Cook studied at 15 under the late great violinist Joseph Joachim in Berlin, played in the Berlin Symphony, returned to the U.S. and the music of his people, wrote scores for the late great minstrels Bert Williams and George Walker. In recent years he turned to choral composition, last year in Haiti collaborated with his son on an opera, St. Louis 'Ooman...