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Winner of the Christopher Award and the New York City Book AwardWinner of the 2016 Wheatley Book Award in NonfictionA history of African Americans in New York City from the 1910s to 1960, told through the life of Samuel Battle, the New York Police Departments first black officer. When Samuel Battle broke the color line as New York Citys first African American cop in the second decade of the twentieth century, he had to fear his racist colleagues as much as criminals. He had to be three times better than his white peers, and many times more resilient. His life was threatened. He was displayed like a circus animal. Yet, fearlessly claiming his rights, he prevailed in a four-decade odyssey that is both the story of one mans courageous dedication to racial progress and a harbinger of the divisions between police and the people they serve that plague twenty-first-century America. By dint of brains, brawn, and an outsized personality, Battle rode the forward wave of African American history in New York. He circulated among renowned turn-of-the-century entertainers and writers. He weathered threatening hostility as a founding citizen of black Harlem. He served as godfather to the regiment of black soldiers that won glory in World War I as the Hellfighters of Harlem. He befriended sports stars like Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, and Sugar Ray Robinson, and he bonded with legendary tap dancer Bill Bojangles Robinson. Along the way, he mentored an equally smart, equally tough young man in a still more brutal fight to integrate the New York Fire Department. At the close of his career, Battle looked back proudly on the against-all-odd journey taken by a man who came of age as the son of former slaves in the South. He had navigated the corruption of Tammany Hall, the treachery of gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Dutch Schultz, the anything-goes era of Prohibition, the devastation of the Depression, and the race riots that erupted in Harlem in the 1930s and 1940s. By then he was a trusted aide to Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and a friend to First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Realizing that his story was the story of race in New York across the first half of the century, Battle commissioned a biography to be written by none other than Langston Hughes, the preeminent voice of the Harlem Renaissance. But their eighty-thousand-word collaboration failed to find a publisher, and has remained unpublished since. Using Hughess manuscript, which is quoted liberally throughout this book, as well as his own archival research and interviews with survivors, Pulitzer Prizewinning journalist Arthur Browne has created an important and compelling social history of New York, revealed a fascinating episode in the life of Langston Hughes, and delivered the riveting life and times of a remarkable and unjustly forgotten man, setting Samuel Battle where he belongs in the pantheon of American civil rights pioneers. Browse All Poems - Love Poems - Poem Hunter Poems are the property of their respective owners All information has been reproduced here for educational and informational purposes to benefit site visitors Movie Review - Rolling Stone 'King Arthur: Legend of the Sword' Review: Welcome to a King-Sized Mess Guy Ritchie's loud loose take on the British monarch and his ass-kicking round table is a lot Freemasons - The silent destroyers Deist religious cult Sacrifice Sport Masons Illuminati 666 Babylon Bohos Secret Apostasy Quark Strangeness and Charm Freemasons: The silent destroyers - deist religious The Black Pope Count Hans KolvenbachThe Jesuits General Note: The following article is from the May 2000 issue of The SPECTRUM Newspaper Public use of this article is permitted as long as origin of the article and Trump's Plan to Screw Over National Monuments Is Mirrored On Wednesday President Trump signed an executive order that opened up a review of 25 national monuments potentially setting the stage for Secretary of the Interior New Movie Reviews & Film Reviews Hollywood Reporter Get exclusive film and movie reviews from THR the leading source of film reviews online We take an honest look at the best and worst movies Hollywood has to offer Opinion - The Telegraph 10 May 2017 11:39am Comment: James Comey was sacked because Donald Trump and the Democrats are still fighting the 2016 election April the Giraffe Has Officially Given Birth - Gizmodo An event almost 16 months in the making is going down right this moment at the Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville New York Internet phenomenon April the Giraffe The Awesome Potential of Man - Restored Church of God The Awesome Potential of Man by David C Pack Prepare to be staggeredstunned beyond belief! Incredible truth has remained hiddenheld backfrom all humanity New York Events Activities & Things To Do - Time Out New York's guide to theater restaurants bars movies shopping fashion events activities things to do music art books clubs tours dance & nightlife
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