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Rev. Malika Leigh Whitney and Double Dutch Dreamz

When she was growing up in Harlem in the 1940s, Reverend Malika Leigh Whitney played a lot of street games, like hopscotch, jacks, stick ball, and stoop ball.

The Man Who Could Fly: The Bob Beamon Story, excerpt

Mr. Louis Schuker, the principal at Jamaica High, had a long talk with me and Coach Ellis.

History of Double Dutch

Two Black Harlem police officers, Mike Walker and Ulysses Williams, founded the first Annual World International Double Dutch competition in 1974.

New York Kids Jump for Prizes in Double Dutch Tourney

The Eighth Annual World International Double Dutch competition took place at Lincoln Center in 1981.

Double Dutch, sculpture by John Ahearn, Intervale Ave. and Kelly St.

In the 1970s and 1980s in New York City, many Black and Latinx neighborhoods were impoverished and their residents were struggling.

Girls Jumping Double Dutch

According to New York’s Black newspaper the Amsterdam News, Double Dutch is “a skip-rope activity in which two ropes are turned in eggbeater fashion by two rope turners while a third person jumps within the moving ropes.

Reflections - August, 1967, excerpt

Located near the town of Hunter, New York, in the Catskill Mountains (a few hours from New York City), Camp Jened was unusual at the time for its focus on Disabled campers.

Baseball

The grounds of Camp Jened included a river, a lake with a dock for boating and places to row, swimming facilities, and a stream that was great for fishing.

Camp Scholarships Will Be Awarded to Handicapped Adults

Camp Jened was a private camp, and it charged campers’ families for attendance.

Memorandum to Counselors

For Camp Jened to be accessible to Disabled children and adults, staff and counselors had to work well with campers.

Camp Jened - Real Camping for the Handicapped, cover

Camp Jened was located in the northern Catskills, on over 250 acres (which is about ⅓ the size of Central Park, or as big as 250 football fields) with 22 buildings near the town of Hunter, New York.