Word: harlemization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realists, sent a vapid study of a curiously costumed boy on a bicycle adorned with a red, white & blue racoon tail. He called it Young America. Philip Evergood, who is as much concerned with social propaganda as he is with exercising his prodigious talent, showed a grim glance at Harlem entitled Sunny Side of the Street. It was cluttered as all get-out, but as usual with Evergood, every detail was drawn with character and spirit...
...Manhattan's Harlem prowl some of the nation's most vicious teen-age gangs, and neither police watchfulness nor the usual type of social work has done much good against them.* Three years ago, the privately financed Welfare Council of New York City started a simple experiment in infiltration. To four of the worst gangs in Central Harlem-the Jay Bees, the Gay Blades, the Royals and the Knights-it assigned four young social workers, three of them Negroes. By last week, the council was able to tell, in a 162-page report, what its social workers...
...York's Harlem, the world's biggest Negro community, the weekly Amsterdam News speaks with a loud voice. But when the Negro-owned-and-staffed News hiked its price from 10? to 15? in 1946, its voice began to quaver as circulation slipped from a peak of 110,000 to around 65,000. In an effort to get the frog out of its throat, the News made a drastic change: for the first time in its 41-year history, it hired a white man as its managing editor. The News's new boss: New York-born Stanley...
...other congressional races: ¶ Harlem's pro-Communist Vito Marcantonio was beaten at last-after seven terms-by lean, tough 51-year-old James G. Donovan, candidate of an unprecedented Democrat-Republican-Liberal coalition...
...York, in Washington, in San Juan, Government agents began a high-pressure investigation of the weird assassination plot. Government agents roused by teletype combed Manhattan's Spanish Harlem; they picked up a covey of Puerto Rican Nationalists, arrested the wives of the two gunmen. Both women were dry-eyed and defiant. Cried Rosa Collazo to her three daughters: "Hold up your heads. Don't be ashamed...