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In the 1930s, overcrowding in schools in Harlem was identified as a major impediment to education and a subject for reform efforts. Lucile Spence, Gertrude Elise McDougald Ayer, and Layle Lane were educators involved in the reform efforts. [2] "
History of Education Quarterly 8.2 (1968): 215–228. online; Bourne, William Oland. History of the Public School Society of the City of New York: with portraits of the presidents of the Society (1870) online; Browne, Henry. "Public Support of Catholic Education in New York 1825–1842; Some New Aspects" Catholic Historical Review 39 (1953), pp ...
Although "Spanish Harlem" had been in use since at least the 1930s to describe the Hispanic enclave – along with "Italian Harlem" and "Negro Harlem" [80] – around the 1950s the name began to be used to describe the entire East Harlem neighborhood. Later, the name "El Barrio" ("The Neighborhood") began to be used, especially by inhabitants ...
Harlem became the political capital of black America, with highly controversial leadership from Marcus Garvey in the early 1920s. [71] Sustained civil rights activism took place in the 1930s and 1940s, often led by Baptists minister Adam Clayton Powell Jr., who was elected to the United States Congress in 1942. [72]
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This is a list of public elementary schools in New York City.They are typically referred to as "PS number" (e.g., "PS 46", that is, "Public School 46"). Many PS numbers are ambiguous, being used by more than one school.
A map of Upper Manhattan, with Greater Harlem highlighted.Harlem proper is the neighborhood in the center. Harlem is located in Upper Manhattan.The three neighborhoods comprising the greater Harlem area—West, Central, and East Harlem—stretch from the Harlem River and East River to the east, to the Hudson River to the west; and between 155th Street in the north, where it meets Washington ...
In 1962 he worked for the YMCA and in 1964 became director of the East Harlem Youth Career Information Conference. Covello was a founding member of the American Italian Historical Association (1966). In 1972, Leonard Covello went to Sicily at the invitation of educator Danilo Dolci to apply his methods of education to disadvantaged children in ...