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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 Department’s first black officer.  When Samuel Battle broke the color line as New York City’s 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 man’s 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 But their eighty-thousand-word collaboration failed to find a publisher, and has remained unpublished since.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 Hughes’s manuscript, which is quoted liberally throughout this book, as well as his own archival research and interviews with survivors, Pulitzer Prize–winning 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. Archives - Philly.com Archives and past articles from the Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com. Movie Review - Rolling Stone Music Movies TV ... French supernatural drama is a perfect showcase for one this generation's most fearless leading actresses NYPD recalls Lt. Samuel Battle in Black History Month ... NYPD Black History Month program recalls legacy of pioneering Lt. Samuel Battle Shattering the Shackles of Shame - aibi.ph Shattering. The Shackles. Of Shame. Patricia Lee Hulsey Harvestime International Network. 14431 Tierra Drive. Colorado Springs CO 80921. USA. Printed In The ... Andrew Jackson HistoryNet Facts information and articles about Andrew Jackson the 7th US President Andrew Jackson Facts Born March 15 1767 Died June 8 1845 Spouse Rachel Jackson ... Isaiah Commentaries & Sermons Precept Austin OTHER BOOK CHARTS ON ISAIAH. Interesting Facts About Isaiah; Isaiah Chart The Book of Isaiah; Isaiah Overview Chart by Charles Swindoll; Visual Overview The Awesome Potential of Man - Restored Church of God The hope of every Christian is to one day receive salvation with most assuming that going to heaven is the final and greatest reward attainable for every ... 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. Entertainment News - Los Angeles Times L.A. Times entertainment news from Hollywood including event coverage celebrity gossip and deals. View photo galleries read TV and movie reviews and more. 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 ...
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