Volume 5, Number 5 · October 14, 1965
Uptown
By Murray Kempton
Dark Ghetto
by Kenneth Clark
Harper & Row, 240 pp., $4.95
Adam Clayton Powell and the Politics of Race
by Neil Hickey, by Ed Edwin
Fleet, 298 pp., $6.50
Abraham Beame was Harlem's choice as Democratic nominee for Mayor in the September 14 primary. Everything about Harlem seems in need of translation: translated, this event, whatever its consequences for the rest of New York, means for Harlem that Adam Clayton Powell is again the master of its politics. These books define the value of the property.
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