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and John Hanks, who trained in the Y. pool and the Harlem River to make an attempt to swim the English Channel. It was on this street and at the Y that I met Hamel Josceyln who talked my father into sending me to Morehouse College and it was from the Y that the kids from Morehouse would come on the way up from Georgia to work on the Connecticut Tobacco farm. This yearly trip enabled them to make around $500 for the summer, giving them enough funds to buy English drape suits at Billy Taub Store on Broadway where Joe Louis shopped and pay tuition at Morehouse. 

135th Street on Lenox Avenue housed P.S. 89, a white Elementary school where the Board of Education hired a Negro lady teacher, one Ruth Handy, to teach the 24 guys she had in her class. And it was not until I was a grown man working in the Manhattan Borough President's office, that I realized that this was segregation.


[[footnote: "Mel's Harlem" is part of Delegate 1982's publication. The complete store of "I Remember Harlem" will be published under separate cover at a later date... H.S.]]

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OF THESE HARLEMITES?