Gunther, Max. “Why A Northern Town Fights School Intergration” Saturday Evening Post. 237.32 (1964) : 66-67
This article I found on the databases for Malverne was written in 1963. The choice of language is completely different than what might be used today in an article. It refers to African Americans as “Negro’s”. The article focuses on Malverne’s controversy over kicking some white kids out of school to reach a status quo. The Plan trying to be passed during this time said, “any school that has a nonwhite enrollment of more than fifty percent was endangered of becoming entirely segregated”.
An organization called the Taxpayers and Parents organization (TAP) tried to combat this plan. This combat stirred up much racial conflict in Malverne. They members of TAP denied being racist or making this opposition a racial movement but rather said it was reverse racism towards whites. Mason Hampton Jr, TAP’s lawyer said, “…having forty-nine percent Negro in a school, or any other percentage, is illegal, then its just as bad as the southerner who wants a quota of zero percent Negro kids in a white school.” However, African American leaders explained their view of “subconscious prejudice”. Dr. Lloyd Delany, the head of the Negro United Committee for Action Now (UCAN) received a bomb threat and white boys on the street would occasionally yell, “lynch the blacks”. The racism in Malverne at this time seemed to be played down a lot by whites refusing to be racist, but just wanting their children to fill the neighboring school.
Monday, October 1, 2007
Malverne's Small Town Glory (Research)
Kellerman, Vivien. “If You’re Thinking of Living In/Malverne, L.I; Mom-and-Pops and a Working Farm.” New York Times 5 Oct. 1997, late ed., sec 9: 3.
On 1997 The New York Times wrote an article on Malverne’s own groundhog, Malverne Mel, who brought many visitors to the town. While the reporter for this article visited the quaint town of 8,000 residents they emphasized the structure of the small town. The article gives a vivid description of the “mom and pop” stores, the independent movie theatre and the library. Malverne is located between two big Nassau communities so the residents of Malverne are not closed off from the rest of the world. It is approximately 22 miles away from midtown Manhattan and it takes just 43 minutes on the Long Island Rail Road to get there. The residents of this town don’t always have to go out of their neighborhood to find entertainment they hold antique car shows and an annual one-day County Fair that brings at least 200 vendors. A famous part of Malverne is one of the last farms on Nassau County, Grossmann’s Farm. A small knit family that creates tomatoes, beets, scallions, zucchini, etc operates the Farm. It has been around for seventy-five years. Another farmhouse in the village was turned into a museum that is free on Sundays from twelve in the afternoon until three.
On 1997 The New York Times wrote an article on Malverne’s own groundhog, Malverne Mel, who brought many visitors to the town. While the reporter for this article visited the quaint town of 8,000 residents they emphasized the structure of the small town. The article gives a vivid description of the “mom and pop” stores, the independent movie theatre and the library. Malverne is located between two big Nassau communities so the residents of Malverne are not closed off from the rest of the world. It is approximately 22 miles away from midtown Manhattan and it takes just 43 minutes on the Long Island Rail Road to get there. The residents of this town don’t always have to go out of their neighborhood to find entertainment they hold antique car shows and an annual one-day County Fair that brings at least 200 vendors. A famous part of Malverne is one of the last farms on Nassau County, Grossmann’s Farm. A small knit family that creates tomatoes, beets, scallions, zucchini, etc operates the Farm. It has been around for seventy-five years. Another farmhouse in the village was turned into a museum that is free on Sundays from twelve in the afternoon until three.
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