Monthly Archives: July 2012

A Birthday Wish for Alton Maddox

 Three decades ago, a group of Black activists were standing in front of the Schomburg Center protesting the hiring of a white archivist. When someone asked about summoning “One Hundred Black Men”, Preston Wilcox said that New York had never […]

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Blacks are Living Large in “Play Land” By Alton H. Maddox, Jr.    Before 1964, it would have been legally impossible for Rev. Al Sharpton to have hopped on an airplane and fly to any domestic destination in the United […]

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