Cotton Comes to Harlem (2011)
“Those who are not religious stay in bed. The whores, pimps, gamblers, criminals and racketeers catch up on their sleep or their love. But the religious get up and put on their best clothes and go to church. The bars are closed. The stores are closed. The streets are deserted save for the families on their way to church. A drunk better not be caught molesting them; he’ll get all the black beat off him.
All of the Sunday newspapers had carried the story of the arrest of Reverend D. O’Malley, leader of the Back-to-Africa movement, on suspicion of fraud and homicide. The accounts of the hijacking had been rehashed and pictures of O’Malley and his wife, Iris, and Mabel Hill added to the sensationalism.
As a consequence Reverend O’Malley’s interdenominational church, “The Star of Ham”, on 121st Street between Seventh and Lenox Avenues, was crowded with the Back-to-Africa followers and the curious. A scattering of Irish people who had read the story in The New York Times, which didn’t carry ...pictures, had made their way uptown, thinking Reverend O’Malley was one of them.MoreLess
All of the Sunday newspapers had carried the story of the arrest of Reverend D. O’Malley, leader of the Back-to-Africa movement, on suspicion of fraud and homicide. The accounts of the hijacking had been rehashed and pictures of O’Malley and his wife, Iris, and Mabel Hill added to the sensationalism.
As a consequence Reverend O’Malley’s interdenominational church, “The Star of Ham”, on 121st Street between Seventh and Lenox Avenues, was crowded with the Back-to-Africa followers and the curious. A scattering of Irish people who had read the story in The New York Times, which didn’t carry ...pictures, had made their way uptown, thinking Reverend O’Malley was one of them.MoreLess
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