Word: harlemization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concordance. In Harlem, Publisher Levi ("Professor") Graham was released on $500 bail after police seized 225,000 copies of his "spiritual guidance" booklets in which, the cops said, the biblical reference numbers were tips in policy games...
...FEPC. But New York's Congressman Donald O'Toole, who reminded the House of early U.S. discrimination against the Irish Catholic, vehemently upheld FEPC. "We are [God's] creatures," he cried, "and we are entitled to receive from each other the love He bade us give." Harlem's Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, pilot of the Administration bill, quoted Daniel Webster in railing against the McConnell substitute: "A law without a penalty is simply good advice...
...extra switchboard operators kept up a singsong chant: "Sorry, no tickets." On the big night, 21,866 fans jammed into the big arena while 5,000 waited outside, unmindful of rain and sleet. It was the largest crowd ever to watch a professional basketball game. The attraction: the amazing Harlem Globetrotters, a razzle-dazzle Negro team which was riding a 113-game winning streak, v. the Minneapolis Lakers, rated the best white team in existence and sparked by towering (6 ft. 10 in.) George Mikan, the basketball player of the half-century...
...When the Harlem Trotters' tricky, little (5 ft. 7 in.) Marques Haynes scuttled in to score the first basket, the gallery buzzed. No one had forgotten what happened the first time the Trotters played the Lakers last year. After rolling up a comfortable lead over the Lakers, the Globetrotters had nonchalantly started playing for laughs-passing between their legs, setting up a mock pitcher-catcher act, spinning the ball on their fingertips. A newsreel cameraman had recorded the whole humiliating burlesque and Minneapolis never lived it down. Mikan & Co. wiped out part of the humiliation by beating them later...
Something Doing. Ransom came to Bethel Church in New York's Harlem in 1907, and shocked fellow ministers by opening a mission in a store-front "flanked on one side by a notorious gambling joint and on the other by one of the biggest sporting houses in New York. I'm told it housed as many as 60 girls." He came to be a respected friend to both girls and gamblers; sometimes dead-broke streetwalkers "timidly would . . . ask: 'Will you lend me a dollar, Reverend?' And I always would." Once, he remembers, a prostitute...