Harlem_1950s-1960s


 * (1)"In the 1960's Adam Clayton Powell threatened to tell Congress about Rustin's homosexuality, causing Martin Luther King who had worked closely with Bayard Rustin during the Montgomery Boycott and thereafter, to publicity break with Rustin." One day Ray Jones went to David and said "Boy do you want to be important". David said "Well yeah"! Ray was also known as the fox. Ray was the first Black County Leader of New York County, which in those days had been called Tammany Hall. ****Dutch Settlers found Harlem in 1658 and it was a 5 1/2 square mile of Central Park. ** ** Fritz Alexander who later became the first black elected at least for full term on the Court of Appeals. In 1960 people started leaving Harlem due to social problems. For 2 years (1658-1660) Harlem was farmland where New Yorkers had large country estates. This is how Ray Jones became county leader. Ray was from the West Indies. As a young man he used to carry ice. ** ** In those days people had iceboxes as opposed to refridgerators and the iceman would deliver ice, and you would see men carrying these big blocks of ice. Langston Hughes was a Harlem poet and farmer Columbian student. At any rate I have a feeling that there was more activity, more involvement then there is today. In 1977 Harlem declined Jews to live in Harlem because Harlem was growing to be an African American population. Because of what Walter did I got no attention when I came along because of the path he helped to clear. In the golden days, fast becoming a myth when vacant apartments were many and rents were cheap, a Harlem landlord who let down the bars of his tenement to admit the colored family brought down rath upon his head." **

=References= (1)Harlem History