Radical Imagination. Scratch-off Designed by Stayce’s Son.
Draft. Lines read off 1927–1950 scans (Library of Congress). Not yet validated.
INSTANT HISTORY
Volume 1
Queens
South Jamaica
A 2021 Smithsonian article says the press called her the “policy queen of South Jamaica.” We haven’t found that press item yet. Help us find her: the Long Island Daily Press, 1935, on microfilm on Merrick Boulevard.
Name to come
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1935The year of her arrest, per that article. The rest is in the archive.
TO CHECKOne secondary source so far. Next: the archive.
Draft. Lines read off 1927–1950 scans (Library of Congress). Not yet validated.
INSTANT HISTORY
Volume 2. Harlem
Casper Holstein
What it cost
Run out of the field
1927: the UNIA’s Liberty Hall was “sold at auction” for its debts; Holstein “paid $36,000.” 1928: his Elks lodge voted to buy it “for what it cost him.” Reported in 1934: Schultz’s outfit “ran Holstein out of the field.”
Draft. Lines read off 1927–1950 scans (Library of Congress). Not yet validated.
INSTANT HISTORY
Volume 3. Pittsburgh. Official scorecard
Gus Greenlee
1933: “Greenlee heads baseball league.” 1944: “Greenlee forcing club owners to up pay of players.”
Batting
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The grill
The team
The league
1936:leading “a $50,000 drive for the dethroned Number King,” Harlem’s Casper Holstein.
Draft. Lines read off 1927–1950 scans (Library of Congress). Not yet validated.
Instant History. Volume 4
Detroit presents
JOHN ROXBOROUGH
Co-manager of Joe Louis. His term:
2½ to 5 years
1939: “Buys 54-Apt. Building,” opened to Black tenants. 1940: indicted with the former mayor and 89 Detroit police. 1942: “two and one-half to five” years, “charged with dealing in policy slips.”
Draft. Lines read off 1927–1950 scans (Library of Congress). Not yet validated.
INSTANT HISTORY
Volume 5. Chicago. Bronzeville
The Jones Brothers
Ben Franklin Store
47th Street, Bronzeville
Stock and fixtures, around$75,000
Employees50
The building$30,000
Rented to the Pittsburgh Courieryes
Charged, 1940: taxes$1,000,000+
Edward, sentenced 194128 months
His brothers’ chargesdischarged
1946: Edward Jones kidnapped.
Draft. Lines read off 1927–1950 scans (Library of Congress). Not yet validated.