Word: harlemization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions asked him to take a leave of absence from his Harlem pulpit last year and tour Europe and Asia as an ambassador-at-large, Pastor Robinson accepted. He had something to say about his country and its churches. In interviews since he got back, and in a series of articles ending in this week's Presbyterian Life, Robinson tells how it went...
...being the best of U.S. Negro writers.*It makes him, for that matter, an unusual writer by any standard. His story of one Negro's effort to find his place in the world becomes at times a picaresque nightmare, full of bravura scenes in the South and in Harlem that are as original as they are imaginative. Not even patches of overwriting and murky thinking can dull the final powerful effect. For Invisible Man is no simple catalogue of hard-luck adventures in a world where might is white. Before it is over, Novelist Ellison's hero...
...North, after a humiliating first job in a paint factory, the boy winds up broke in Harlem. One day, watching the eviction of an aged Negro couple, he breaks into an impassioned speech to the crowd. It is the beginning of a new career. The "Brotherhood" (euphemism for the Communist Party) picks him up, makes a hero of him and gives him a job stirring up and organizing Negro resentment. Idealism and naivete working overtime, Boy falls for the whole line. Adoring white women make passes at him, his fame spreads. Then, slowly, he makes the embittering discovery that...
...Digging Me, Daddy?" Author Ellison's Harlem scenes are done with dash and flavor, and the lingo is right: "Well, git with it! ... You digging me, daddy? Haw, but look me up sometimes, I'm a piano player and a rounder, a whisky drinker and a pavement pounder. I'll teach you some good bad habits. You'll need 'em." Author Ellison knows all about the mountebanks and charlatans, political and otherwise, who prosper in Harlem, and his examples (especially Ras the Exhorter, who fancies himself as a black Messiah) are richly drawn. The book...
James H. Robinson, Harlem clergyman who is fighting for the employment of young Negroes in United States embassies, will speak at the Congregational Church at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow...