Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negroes got their freedom through the G.O.P. "Millions of them distrust the Democratic Party, which for years has deprived the Negro of his right to vote in Atlanta while seeking his vote . . . in Harlem." But they have made economic gains under the New Deal; "they will not leave that party for vague assurances of future action expressed in pious platitudes. The Republican Party . . . should commit itself unequivocally and specifically to federal anti-poll tax and anti-lynching statutes...
Along with problem dramas, A.N.T. has produced the current Broadway farce, Three's a Family and has gaily spoofed Strivers' Row, Harlem's uppity Park Avenue. Says A.N.T.: "When a race can laugh at its own foibles, it has really become civilized...
Among their units was the old 24th Regiment, which had supported Teddy Roosevelt in 1898 in the Rough Riders' charge up San Juan Hill. Two-thirds of their officers were Negroes, 90% of them college graduates. The enlisted men were boys who had lived in Harlem tenements, plowed Georgia farms, carted crates in San Francisco...
...members are reportedly the largest Protestant congregation in the U.S. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and young (35), Adam Powell has been successively a javelin thrower at Colgate University, a redcap in Manhattan's Grand Central Terminal, a New York City councilman. He has also led several Harlem picketlines, and edits an aggressive tabloid, The People's Voice. Handsome in a gates-ajar collar, Powell makes a hell-raising speech, likes to kiss the womenfolk in the congregation afterward. His secretary says proudly: "All the women love...
...campaign began, Sara Speaks scored the first victory. At his own first press conference (with drinks from the pantry-bar in his four-story Harlem house) Dr. Powell said: "I will represent the Negro first, and all other Americans next." Quickly Sara Speaks, who knows that there are also about 31,000 Irish, Italians, Puerto Ricans and Spaniards in the new district, said: "My major concern will be for all of the people of my district...