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Remembering Harlem Councilman Frederick E. Samuel

Posted on October 18, 2012 by | 3 Comments

Frederick E. Samuel,  affectionately known as “Fred,” was born in Montserrat, West Indies on January 22, 1924 and passed away due to a heart attack on September 12, 1985 at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. Continue reading →

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HW Bio: Benjamin Davis, Jr., Harlem City Councilman

Posted on July 10, 2010 by | 2 Comments

Biography

A major figure in Harlem community politics and the Communist Party during the 1930s and 1940s, Benjamin Davis, Jr. was born into a prominent African American family in Atlanta, Georgia in 1903. He migrated north to Massachusetts to attend college at Amherst, where he was an all-American football player, and in 1932 graduated from Harvard Law School. Continue reading →

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