Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conviction is growing," he says, "that the law should not be isolated from other disciplines." Episcopalian Stringfellow merges his own Christian concern so thoroughly with his profession that he lives and works in an East Harlem tenement section, practicing criminal law in order to "share the burdens of other...
...Harlem's Althea Gibson (TIME cover, Aug. 26, 1957), 31, defending her U.S. national championship at Forest Hills, defeated California's 22-year-old Darlene Hard (3-6, 6-1, 6-2) and announced that she will retire from amateur tennis for a year to sing professionally. Australia's Ashley Cooper, 21, shrugged off an ankle injury in the last set to defeat 23-year-old Aussie Mai Anderson (6-2, 3-6, 4-6, 10-8, 8-6), defending champion, in the national men's championship; for the first time in the 78-year history...
...Just Outgrew Her." Powell's secret of success lies in his gaudy person and personality, which seem to mesmerize Harlem's 75.000 eligible voters. Tall and trim (6 ft. 2 in., 193 Ibs.), the descendant of slaves (at ten. he says, he traced with horror the brand on his grandfather's back), he has talked his way to wealth and influence, become the dashing symbol of all that his constituents would like to be. An ordained minister, he succeeded his father in the pulpit of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church (9,943 congregants). Promptly turning...
...obstructionist and, above all, ineffective. Last year, for example, he insisted on tacking a civil rights clause to the much-needed $1.5 billion school construction bill. Powell knew he could never get the rider approved; he also knew that his intransigeance would kill the bill-which would have helped Harlem's schoolchildren as much as anyone in the U.S. It turned out just that...
...Hired Hoodlums." To New York's Powell-weary Democratic organization, the breaking point came when Powell supported Dwight Eisenhower for President in 1956. Searching around for a Democratic candidate against the big man from Harlem, Tammany came upon Councilman Brown, whose civil rights performance surpasses his oratory, e.g., he is co-author of New York City's antidiscrimination housing...