European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 05, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                K Richard a. Martin some economic gains came As result of 1959 picketing. _ Library of Cong Rem two grandmothers promenade in Harlem amur of Century. . Dally Newt opulent by uniformed Marcus Garvey who sought to promote a Back to Africa movement rides in limousine in 1922 photo. By Leonard Hill staff writer residential and business Sec Tion in upper Manhattan. Harlem. Bounded roughly by 110th Street the East River and Harlem River 168th Street Amsterdam Avenue and morn inside Park.  until the 19th Century when improved transportation linked it wit lower Manhattan and it became a fashionable residential Section. One of the largest negro communities in the u.s., after a rapid influx of negroes from1910 to 1920 radically changed its face. Poverty crime rat infested Tene ments hopelessness but also Duke Ellington cab Calloway Richard Wright James Baldwin Marcus Garvey kid chocolate Joe Louis father divine Malcolm x and Adam Clayton Powell. Harlem a ghetto tossed by the tur Moil of change enveloping All Black americans and considered by Many sullen powder Keg almost impossible to View in perspective because so much Page t2 of yesterday is still today basically unaltered. Yet amid the misery and the modes triumphs there developed in Harlem a major cultural environment with enor Mous strength and potential a continuing leadership tradition now there s a controversial offbeat exhibit at Manhattan s metropolitan museum of Art dedicated to its people past present and future As a record of their achievements. Harlem on my mind it s called an exhibition devoted to the cultural capital of Black Amer Ica 1900-1968," the show fills 14 of the met s galleries with 600 photographic blowups and slides plus videotapes and  contains no paintings in its Stark chronicle of the struggle to establish an Urban Black culture in the midst of 20th Century industrialized society. Financed by a $225,000 Grant from the Henry Luce foundation it was organized by Alion Schoener visual arts director of the . State Council on the arts who is a White Man. With negro Audi Engineer Donald Harper and negro photographer Reginald  exhibition opened to pickets and protest Over its Catalon s introduction an essay written two years ago by a 17-year-old negro High school girl As term paper. It has been criticized As racist in its comments on minority groups. Discussing Harlem s inter group relations the Young author Candice Van Ellison said in part behind every hurdle that the afro american has yet to jump stands the jew who has already cleared it. Jewish shopkeepers Are the Only remaining survivors in the expanding Black ghettos ,. The Lack of Competition in this area allows the already exploited Lack to be further exploited by jews ,. One other important Factor Worth noting is that psychologically Blacks May find that anti jewish sentiment place them for once within a major Ity. Thus our contempt for the jew makes us feel More completely Amer ican in sharing a National  a disclaimer inserted subsequently in the Catalon museum director Thom As p. F. Having apologized for any a Schomburg collection . Public Library All dressed up children put Best feet Forward in a sidewalk fashion contest around 1928. Cial undertones and miss Van Ellison said that any racist overtones. Inferred from passages quoted out of context Are  despite or because of toe toiling controversy the museum has been packing them in. With As Many As  on a sunday. Classes of Harlem school children mingle with matrons in fur Coats and Young couples in Bell Bottom pants read ing negro newspapers of the 1920s and listening to recordings of How the negro spiritual and West Indian cultures influenced Harlem. The exhibit has Acen criticized by negroes As an inaccurate picture of Harlem and by artists who want i closed because they say it is superficial distorted and irrelevant. Robert t. Mangum the state s human rights commissioner asked that it be closed until it reflects a More accurate record of the aspirations achievement and goals of the Blac people Oln a York r but the exhibit continues to draw turn away crowds. Schomburg collodion . Public Library stylish Trio wowed pm while strolling along seventh Avenue around 1927., Public Library the stars and stripes some fancy Jitterbug gang livened up thing it the Savoy about 1939, be Bruxy 1969 follows of father i View. The Dpi if Al Tader Parade in Ufa Thi Stati am set offs it 13