Bumpy Johnson Found a Boy Sleeping in His Building Lobby — He Never Asked His Name
At five minutes before 5:00 on the morning of Thursday, January 17th, 1946, in nine-degree cold, Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson entered a building lobby on West 142nd Street in Harlem and found a boy asleep on the tile floor between a radiator and a bank of mailboxes. The boy, perhaps 11 or 12, had folded a … Read more