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...continues.The book not only provides an in-depth historical perspective but also reaches the reader at a more emotional level with its many anecdotes of injustice in the North. Sugrue tells of the 1964 police shooting of a black junior high school student during a non-violent protest in Harlem. (Immediately after the shooting, the protest turned into a riot—“the largest uprising in the North since World War II.”) He paints a picture of a black family, aided by white liberals, that tries to move to Levittown only to encounter angry...
...first parade was a much smaller procession, created in 1924 by Macy's employees eager to celebrate Christmas ( that's right, it used to be a Christmas parade) and draw attention to their department store. The employees marched six miles, from Harlem to Herald's Square, dressed as clowns, knights and cowboys. Marching bands and animals from the Central Park Zoo accompanied the parade's first floats: The Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe, Miss Muffet and Red Riding Hood. The event attracted a quarter of a million people and was deemed a roaring success. Macy's decided...
After Rhee graduated from Cornell University in 1992, she joined Teach for America. She spent three years teaching at Harlem Park Elementary, one of the lowest-performing schools in Baltimore. Her parents visited and were stunned by the conditions of the neighborhood. "The area where the kids lived reminded me of a scene after the Korean War," says her father Shang Rhee...
...feel it too.”When working in New Orleans, Chan wasn’t satisfied with simply putting on a performance. He wanted to revive the damaged communities through art. In collaboration with the New York public art group Creative Time and the Classical Theatre of Harlem, Chan established a network of art institutions that could outlive the “Godot” production itself. He moved to New Orleans for the entire fall semester in order to build his project from the bottom up. Chan taught classes at local universities and set up art workshops with...
Putting over 40,000 minorities to work, without a doubt. Bringing back Harlem and South Central; those communities had been down, and now they're thriving, based on the businesses that I brought. There will always be players winning championships. But there won't be people who can make a difference in somebody else's life...