re: Boardwalk Empire (S.4, Ep 3) "Acres of Diamonds"

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He donated a great deal[citation needed] of his revenues towards charitable purposes such as building dormitories at Black colleges, as well as financing many of the neighorhood's artists, writers, and poets during the Harlem Renaissance. He bought the mortgage on the New York hall of the United Negro Improvement Association and allowed it to continue to be used as a Black function hall when the Marcus Garvey organization collapsed. He also helped establish a Baptist school in Liberia and established a hurricane relief fund for his native Virgin Islands. He was a regular contributor of articles to the NAACP newspaper the Crisis.

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