Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help them over that, we can go a long way toward solving our social problems." Casten spent four years in the Marines, made money as a part-time computer consultant while in graduate school and was co-founder of a Columbia business students' counseling service for Harlem entrepreneurs. He will continue that kind of work by directing venture-capital investments, including some to low-income areas, for the Irwin Management Co. Starting salary: more than...
Married. Adam Clayton Powell III, 22, TV news-producer son of Harlem's high-rolling Congressman and Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott; and Beryl Gillespie Slocum, 26, socialite descendant of Rhode Island Founder Roger Williams; in an Episcopalian ceremony attended by both families; at St. Mary's Chapel in the Washington Cathedral...
...Fire Next Time, James Baldwin warned in 1963, and history seemed bent on rewriting the admonition to "a bigger fire next summer." Since Harlem ignited in 1964 and Watts a year later, blacks and whites have shared a fear of each approaching riot season. Can this year be different? Cautiously, with an almost superstitious anxiety that expressions of hope may tempt fate, black and white leaders across the nation look for a better summer...
Despite its grimy setting in Harlem, C.C.N.Y. has been a major force in shaping U.S. intellectual life. Created in 1847 by a referendum of the city's people, the college at once set high admission standards and offered free education to thousands of immigrants' children who survived the grinding competition. A kind of proletarian Harvard, it produced a long list of financiers, writers and scientists, including Bernard Baruch, Felix Frankfurter, Upton Sinclair, Lewis Mumford and Jonas Salk. As the flagship campus of the 15-college City University of New York, it now has 20,000 students...
...disruption of church operations and seizure of church facilities. Last week conference speaker James Forman, one-time executive director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, disrupted a Sunday Communion service at Manhattan's Riverside Church to demand, among other things, that the church, located on the edge of Harlem, turn over 60% of its investment income to the conference. Two days later Forman posted the conference's "Black Manifesto" on the door of the headquarters of the Lutheran Church in America; the Lutherans' share of the reparations bill, he said, was $50 million. Finally, he appeared...