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"Harlem Gang Leader", Life Magazine, November 1, 1948, p. 96-97

"Harlem Gang Leader", Life Magazine, November 1, 1948, p. 98-99

"Harlem Gang Leader", Life Magazine, November 1, 1948, p. 100-101

"Harlem Gang Leader", Life Magazine, November 1, 1948, p. 102-103

"Harlem Gang Leader", Life Magazine, November 1, 1948, p. 104-105

"Harlem Gang Leader", Life Magazine, November 1, 1948, p. 106-107

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This was Harlem. I was a part of it - it's people, it's songs and words. Then I started roaming through the sea of black faces and they were not as I had expected them to be; they seemed troubled and melancholy. And walking along I found that, in spite of my color, I was a stranger here.

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"Gang Discussion - Red in sun glasses," Harlem, New York, 1948

Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1948

Untitled, Harlem, New York, 1948

"Red's Sister," Harlem, New York, 1948

"Red fixing tie - getting ready for date," Harlem, New York, 1948

"Red looking for rival gang," Harlem, New York, 1948

"Gang member in hide out," Harlem, New York, 1948

“Father Shelton Bishop, rector of St. Philip’s Episcopal Church talks to Leonard ‘Red’ Jackson and some of his Tiny Tims- youngest gang members” [Father Bishop talks earnestly to Red and some of his Tiny Tims, reminds them of the day he caught Midtowners throwing bottles in front of church], Harlem, New York, 1948