Word: harlemization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inflation, the Thief." Next day, after a breakfast (doughnuts & coffee) with a Negro group at Harlem's Theresa Hotel, the Republican candidate entrained for western Connecticut and Massachusetts, upstate New York and southern Michigan...
...goes from North to South. Below the mythical line, voters have left the General's rallies impressed that with him in the White House the federal government would be more concerned with cleaning out Washington "messes" than those in Texas and South Carolina. To the people in Harlem, the General pictures himself as a modern Joshua, itching for the opportunity to blow down the walls of discrimination with a few well-spaced trumpet blasts. Those who read all the General's speeches, regardless of geographical location, have given up in utter confusion...
...employment because of race, color, religion, or national origin and establishment of a federal agency to enforce that prohibition." The plank also advocates legislation against segregation in inter-state transportation, against the poll tax, and against lynching. Governor Stevenson has not shied away from this plank. Not only in Harlem, but in Texas, Virginia, and other states, Stevenson has reiterated this stand on federal civil rights legislation. And Stevenson's civil rights record in Illinois, where he pushed through an FEPC law, testifies to his sincerity...
Died. Dr. Louis Tompkins Wright, 61, surgeon president of Harlem Hospital's medical board, and board chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Georgia-born Dr. Wright was the second Negro (first: Chicago's Dr. Daniel H. Williams) to become a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, in 1948 headed a medical team that was the first to use aureomycin on humans...
...drank orange juice at cocktail parties. He steered a sightseeing boat in the Harlem River at the invitation of its skipper. He inspected a 50-million-barrel-a-year oil refinery in New Jersey, was told that it handles 50 times more oil than his whole country produces, and was handed a chunk of hot synthetic rubber. He was flown from New York to Washington, was taken to the White House for lunch with the President. Among the guests were both Chief Justice Fred Vinson and Harry Vaughan. The King shook hands and smiled, impartially...