Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LeRoi Jones's Black Arts Repertory Theater in Harlem was not organized, as Shriver seems to wish, to bring white culture to the black man, but to allow the black man to express himself within his own culture. So Jones's plays speak in "language of the gutter." Is not Harlem just one giant gutter? What language should he use? And he writes "vile racist plays." Is not Harlem life centered around vile racism? Should Jones write Broadway musicals...
...city. It has a greater possibility to solve the problem of its Negro population than any other city." In 1940, there were 20,000 Negroes in greater Boston; by 1970, there will be at least 100,000, but even so, the problem is not unsolvable as it is in Harlem...
...adornments that lent to ghetto negroes a kind of status he had never known in Michigan. He wore blue or shiny grey zoot suits, burned his long red hair straight by a process called "conking", peddled reefers and dope, and slept with a white woman. Later in Harlem his reputation as a hustler grew. He played and then worked the numbers racket, pimped for male and female prostitutes, sold and took dope in increasing amounts. Back in Cambridge, he organized and led a gang of burglars who worked out of an apartment in Harvard Square until he was caught...
Having followed Malcolm through Michigan, Harlem, prison and in and out of the Black Muslims, the reader understands immediately the sincerity of Malcolms change of heart at Mecca. "There was precedent in my life for this [change]," Malcolm himself said. "My whole life had been a chronology of changes...
Indeed, the entire Harlem program has been a tragic fiasco. Conceived in the hope that it could improve life in the prototypical Negro ghetto, the program has stumbled and stagnated under the leadership of HARYOU-ACT. The agency, directed by Powell Henchman Livingston Wingate, originally hoped to get $118 million in federal, city and private funds for an immense three-year program. So far, it has received barely $10 million-including $3,456,096 in OEO money-and even that turned out to be more than it could account for. Close to $400,000 could not be traced, and Shriver...