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I REMEMBER HARLEM ... MEL PATRICK

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JAMES VANDERZEE/FERDINAND Q. MORTON. 1924/G.G.G. STUDIO

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JOHN CARTER

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JAMES WELDON JOHNSON, 1928 NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE

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CASPER HOLSTEIN, 1928/UPI

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SGT. SAMUEL J. BATTLE, 1926/UPI

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REV. ADAM CLAYTON POWELL, SR., c. 1925
UNDERWOOD AND UNDERWOOD

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A. PHILIP RANDOLPH, c. 1928
SCHOMBURG COLLECTION, NYPL

was because these West Indians with their oldworld pride, "I am from Jamaica, I am from Little England (Barbados) I went to so & so college in Jamaica. The American matched the West Indians in educating their children and fighting for jobs in New York. In the fight for survival the West Indians migrated from Harlem to Brooklyn and settled in downtown Brooklyn around Apple and Pineapple Streets and in Brooklyn Heights. West Indians (those coming after World War I moved from downtown Brooklyn to what is now known as Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and now East New York.

The original Patrick family came on the boat, from Panama after Morton left from Barbados to go to Panama to work on the Panama Canal, to 118 West 130th Street. Another part of the Patrick family, the Atwells came from Allen View, St. Thomas Parish in Barbados to 125 Chauncy Street in Brooklyn. Another part of the Patrick family, the Spooners came from Bridgetown, Barbados and settled on 53rd Street in San Juan Hill section of New York and the politician of our family lawyer Garfield Hines came to 123rd Street and fought like hell to work as a Negro lawyer in a southern owned law firm on Seventh Avenue. Garfield became rich and was a prominent voice in West Indian American politics financing Negro democratic candidates of the thirties.

Another part of the Patrick family Arthur Reid, became the great street corner speaker for 'rights' in the thirties. Arthur spoke from a ladder with a UMIA flag on one side and American flag on the other for our rights to work and enter into the economic world of 125th Street.

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