Parade Watchers Frame Color:Black The Yankees won the game

The Yankees won the game

Despite the attacks

but the mission was entangled in a vast web of power politics on the ground

known as the "Harlem Hellfighters

This photo was taken by Allyn Baum

Parade Watchers Frame Color:Black The Yankees won the gameAttendees lined Seventh Avenue in Harlem on the sidewalk, fire escapes, out windows and on rooftops to watch the sixth annual African American Day parade, which marched from 110th to 142nd Street in September of 1974. The parades theme, Unity Is the Solution to Black Survival, was highlighted in the wide range of participants that included Black leaders from various fields and backgrounds, from politics to art to activism. Times reporter Laurie