Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Soupy Sales will act as the Trotters' coach in a game against the Washington Generals at the Felt Forum, Madison Square Garden...
...York City has become the center of black antiSemitism, although it exists in almost every urban center where large communities of Negroes and Jews intermingle. New York has more Jews (1.8 million) and more blacks (1.5 million) than any other city in the world. The predominantly Negro areas of Harlem and Brooklyn's Ocean Hill-Brownsville were once solidly Jewish; now the Jewish presence is signified by absentee storekeepers and landlords who, fairly or not, are regarded by the Negro as colonial exploiters. More often than not, the black child is taught?in a crumbling, inadequate public school?...
...Harlem's overwhelming musical impact on the jazz age is conveyed by a room where pictures of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson and Bessie Smith are flashed onto eight screens, while loudspeakers boom their music...
...1930s, the mood is set by a winding passage lined with photographs of hungry men. "Last Hired, First Fired" was the rule for Negro workers in the Depression. Yet "Harlem On My Mind" leaves the viewer feeling more alive, aware, and deeply sympathetic to his fellow man-which is, after all, what art is supposed...
...Native Son (1940), a Communist organizer tried to impress the black protagonist by eating soul food in a black restaurant in a black neighborhood. One of the reasons that Rodgers and Hart's lady was a tramp back in 1937 was that she wouldn't "go to Harlem in ermine and pearls...