Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harlem Report [Cont...
Died. Claude McKay, 58, onetime Pullman porter and first Negro to write a bestseller (Home to Harlem, 1928); after long illness; in Chicago. A protege of Max Eastman, Poet-Author McKay drifted leftward through Communism to disillusionment, then swung to Catholicism, lost his high literary promise...
...described the schools as "dingy and dilapidated." What are the facts? The Report itself is in error when it says "many of the buildings were erected before 1900." Out of 26 schools in Harlem, only three were built before...
...September 1943 a group of public-spirited laymen joined with the Board of Education of New York City in a two-year project to reduce delinquency in Harlem by providing additional school services and personnel to P.S. 10, J.H.S. 101 and J.H.S. 120 . . . The Report [on that project] stressed the delinquencies of some young people and the inability of the schools to do much about them...
...Harlem had its gangs that mimicked on the streets the warfare their older brothers were waging in Europe and in the Pacific. But such activities were not confined to Harlem, nor to the city of New York. Actually, the school was one bright spot where law and order prevailed. We quote from the Harlem Report: "The school (J.H.S. 120) was run in a businesslike, efficient way with discipline well maintained, pupils orderly in halls and on stairways - a generally well-kept building. Principal, teachers and pupils deserved credit for this...