Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leaders also fear that such insensate outbursts of anarchy can only discredit the Negro's legitimate struggle for civil rights. What caused the disorders? There were as many explanations as" there were points of view. In Los Angeles, "the long, hot summer" was blamed -as it was in Harlem last year-and not without reason: the rioting broke out on the fourth day of an unusual heat wave in which Angelenos sweltered in humid 90°-to-100° temperatures night and day. A deeper source of irritation for urban Negroes is their isolation and poverty in a land...
Adding insult to injury was the fact that the man who invoked this so-called "21-day" rule was Harlem's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, chairman of the Labor and Education Committee and by any standard the House's purest demagogue. Floor Manager Powell attempted to limit debate to two hours; but amid Republican demands for more time, he and Speaker John McCormack decided to permit five hours, despite Powell's lament that the delay would force him to break a $1,500 speaking engagement in Austin, Texas...
Positive Thinking. Harlem's Adam Clayton Powell, chairman of the Education and Labor Committee that had expanded and reported the bill, spoke from personal experience when he observed that "social-welfare power struggles, political friction and public controversy have been spawned." But, Powell claimed extravagantly, the program already had "uplifted and given new hope" to 3,000,000 people who had been "drifting aimlessly through shabby lives." John Lindsay, the Republican mayoral candidate in New York, also acknowledged problems. Then he said: "I think we should look at this rather affirmatively-we should look at the good that these...
This latest morsel from the previously published-only-in-Paris works of Olympia Press will disappoint smut lovers everywhere. It is at best a poor scraping from the bottom of the Candy barrel. Mamie Mason, Harlem hostess with the mostest, sets out to solve the Race Problem in her own forthright fashion by aiding and abetting two-tone cohabitation as widely and as often as possible among her vast collage of acquaintances. As a single, running, off-color joke, the novel turns out to be neither very funny nor very dirty. The level of its humor is set by Negro...
...American, James D. Horan has spent much of his 35-year newspaper career as an investigative reporter or "digger." In this labyrinthine novel, he describes the city's seamy side vividly, if repetitiously: the sticky-fingered cops who protect the numbers racket; the Mafia-type Italians in East Harlem who run it, along with sundry other unsavory businesses; and bought judges who sanction it all. With other specimens of the "inside" novel genre, this one has several characters whose real-life models are familiar -the rabble-rousing, white-hating black fanatic named the Prophet, the Italian rackets czar named...