Word: harlemization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...himself through the Cleveland Institute of Music. He won a fellowship to study composition in Paris. When the Germans took over, he fled to Spain, then returned to the U.S. and a routine job with the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He went on composing in his fourth-floor Harlem walk-up at night...
...Protestant Episcopal Church is up 4% over last year to 2,643,488, reported the official Living Church Annual last week. Added the Annual, matter-of-factly: the biggest of the denomination's 7,851 congregations is now St. Philip's, in Manhattan's Harlem...
...also a member of the potent standing committee of the New York Diocese, probably the first Negro to serve on a diocesan standing committee in U.S. Episcopal history. But the most important thing about Father Bishop and St. Philip's is what they do for the people of Harlem...
...California, Lightweight Art Aragon is known as the "Golden Boy." He has a handsome profile, a flashy boxing style, and a smashing left that has knocked out half of his opponents. In Harlem, Lightweight Jimmy Carter is known by no nickname, has the plug-ugly looks of a club fighter, and has about as much crowd appeal as a store-window dummy in the rush hour. But Carter has some assets of his own: a deep pride in the lightweight title he took from Ike Williams in an upset last May, and, as the boxers say, "a pair of good...
Outside the South, the Negro still meets with discrimination; his lot in Harlem, Chicago's South Side or Detroit's East Side is in many respects worse than that from which he fled. Yet few return. And the slow spreading and thinning out of the Negro population throughout the nation is a major factor in his growing acceptance as a full citizen...