List of people from Harlem

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People from Harlem, New York.

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[edit] The early period (pre-1920)

[edit] The Harlem Renaissance and World War II (1920-1945)

[edit] Famous after WWII

  • Romare Bearden - artist, primarily working in collage.
  • Roy Wilkins - civil rights leader, lived at 409 Edgecombe.[4]
  • Ralph Ellison - novelist, wrote Invisible Man, about a man who moves from the deep south to Harlem. Lived in Sugar Hill, Harlem.[4]
  • Sugar Ray Robinson - Boxer, Harlem entrepreneur. Moved to Harlem at age 12.
  • Thurgood Marshall - Supreme Court justice, lived at 409 Edgecombe.[4]
  • Harry Belafonte - calypso musican
  • Ossie Davis - actor, lived in Harlem in the late 1930s and mid-1940s
  • W. C. Handy - composer and bandleader, lived on Strivers' Row in Harlem towards the end of his life.[4]
  • James Baldwin - novelist
  • Althea Gibson - professional tennis player. Lived at 115 West 143rd Street.[4]
  • Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. - politician
  • Malcolm X - preacher, revolutionary
  • Earl Manigault - Basketball player
  • Ron Brown - Secretary of Commerce
  • Dr. Kenneth Clark - psychologist and activist
  • LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka - dancer / poet / activist
  • Isiah Robinson, one-time president of the New York City Board of Education[5]
  • Hazel Scott - pianist, one-time wife of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., first African American woman with her own television show.[5]
  • Gordon Parks - film director and photographer[5]
  • Erik Estrada - actor, from East Harlem
  • Percy Sutton - one-time Borough President of Manhattan. "If I were offered a million dollars, I wouldn't leave Harlem."[5]
  • Eleanor Holmes Norton - one-time head of the Commission of Human Rights for New York City, now non-voting Delegate from the District of Columbia to the United States House of Representatives. "There is something magical about Harlem."[5]
  • Basil Patterson - one-time Vice-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee[5]
  • Carl McCall - one-time New York State Senator, and Comptroller of New York State[5]
  • Dinah Washington - "Queen of the Blues", born in Alabama but became famous when she lived in Harlem.[5]
  • Nina Simone - singer. Lived for a time in Duke Ellington's old house in Harlem.[5]
  • Charles Kenyatta - activist, pastor, bodyguard and confidant of Malcolm X[5]
  • Claude Brown - novelist, wrote Manchild in the Promised Land
  • Roy Innis - head of the Congress of Racial Equality. Lived in Harlem but ultimately moved to Brooklyn. "Forget Harlem. Brooklyn is now the world's black capital."[7]
  • Frankie Lymon - Lead tenor of Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, best known for "Why do Fools Fall in Love"
  • Steve Rossi - Comedian, former manager for Howard Stern[8]
  • Frank Lucas - drug dealer

[edit] Rap and hip hop

[edit] Current residents

[edit] Representatives

[edit] References

  1. ^ It Was Fun While it Lasted, Frederic Alexander Birmingham, 1960
  2. ^ Malcolm, Bruce Perry, Station Hill, 1991. page 154
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Star Map," New York Magazine, August 14, 2006, p.35
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Manhattan African-American History and Culture Guide, Museum of the City of New York
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o "To Live In Harlem," Frank Hercules, National Geographic, February 1977, p.178+
  6. ^ a b "The New Heyday of Harlem," Tessa Souter, The Independent on Sunday, June 8, 1997
  7. ^ "City Hall Holds The Key. Harlem's renaissance finds lots of friends, and a few foes," Christian Science Monitor, March 12, 1987
  8. ^ Steve Rossi IMDB page
  9. ^ "The monster now," The New York Daily News, July 10, 2006
  10. ^ "Kareem's Harlem digs," New York Daily News, September 10, 2006
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