A survey of business ownership in a 20-block area in the heart of Harlem shows that Negroes comprise nearly 60 percent of all merchants in the area and that their share of the total is rising, the American Jewish Congress reported today. The findings were offered as a rebuttal to charges that Jews own most of the stores in the ghetto and are piling up profits at the expense of black residents, Prof. Naomi Levine of Long Island University, who directed the survey, said in disclosing the results of the study.
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