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Hulan Jack [[image]] • BOROUGH PRESIDENT OF MANHATTAN According to the City Charter, the duties of the Borough President are to look out for the welfare, health, education, employment, housing and protection of all the citizens of his borough. Harlem is a better community to live and work in because of the job done by Democratic officials like HULAN E. JACK, the Borough President of Manhattan. Hulan Jack is responsible to you for IMPROVEMENTS IN OUR COMMUNITY OF HARLEM. This responsibility covers the construction of new and rehabilitation of old housing, schools, hospitals, playgrounds, health centers, welfare centers, expansion of services of the police, expansion and services of the Fire Department and Sanitation Department, construction of roads, parkways, drives, bridges, personnel, and last but by no means least, for improvement of street lighting. The Borough President of Manhattan is a NEGRO, A REGULAR DEMOCRATIC ORGANIZATIONAL TEAM MAN. MR. JACK IS YOUR NEIGHBOR. He lives in a modest apartment at 45 West 110th Street in HARLEM, with his wife and children. AND WHAT'S MORE — your votes were responsible for placing him in this high office — not once but twice. Hulan Jack's office is always open to the people of Harlem. He welcomes your visits and, as he has done for thousands of the community's residents, he will do his utmost to assist you in any problem. HERE ARE A FEW OF THE THINGS HARLEM HAS GAINED UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION OF BOROUGH PRESIDENT HULAN JACK: 1. A new Harlem Hospital Pavilion. 2. Construction of eighteen new schools and rehabilitation of forty-five other schools. 3. Construction of nineteen low-income housing projects. 4. Three middle- low-income rent projects. 5. Six middle-income housing projects. 6. A new and modern Third Avenue. 7. First portion of the Harlem River Drive extending from 125th to 136th Streets. 8. A new law for mortgage financing. 9. Construction of "MATY" Playgrounds. 10. Fair play in private housing. (More than twenty percent of Manhattantown is rented to Negroes). These improvements cost $344,104,030 over the past eight years. Earl Brown [[image]] • NEW YORK CITY COUNCILMAN • REGULAR DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR U.S. CONGRESS COUNCILMAN EARL BROWN—the Democratic Party's candidate for Congress—has been the Harlem community's effective representative in the New York City Council since 1949, when the people elected him by an overwhelming vote. Councilman Brown's record as a representative of the Harlem people is proof that they chose a man who is an effective and able fighter in their best interests. With the support of the Democratic Party majority in the City Council, Earl Brown introduced and won passage of more civil rights legislation than any other Negro legislator in the history of the City and State. Here is part of Councilman Brown's record of getting things done for the people of Harlem and the City: • Sponsor and fighting champion of the world-famous fair housing law—the Brown-Sharkey-Isaacs Law—which ended discrimination in private housing. • Killed Jim Crow in any housing built with city, state or federal money. • Pushed the successful fight that bars private orphanages that discriminate, from getting any financial assistance from the City. • Got the City Council to halt annual outings at Travers Island, because the New York Athletic Club — which owns the Island — discriminates against Negroes and Jews. • Brought about an investigation of the Police Department on charges of brutality. Helped write new rules for the Department which spells out rights of citizens, thus curbing brutality and the use of mounted police in Harlem streets. • Introduced bill in Council to legalize numbers game as a form of lottery and to legalize off-track betting. • Helped get better schools and teachers for Harlem schools. • Forced race tracks to hire Negro mutual clerks at $30 a day. • Played leading part in fight that ended Auto Use Tax. Councilman Brown was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, and was educated at Harvard University. He is an assistant editor of Life Magazine, with which he has been associated for the past 18 years. He has been a columnist for the New York Amsterdam News for 20 years. Mr. Brown is a director of the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Newspaper Guild, the James Weldon Johnson Community Center and the Harvard Club. The son of a Baptist minister, Councilman Brown has been a Baptist all of his life. 384
