Word: 103rd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expanded to Cincinnati, and eventually HUB expects to be flying between Fort Wayne and Indianapolis, Detroit and Cleveland as well. HUB and a company called Altair Airlines, which begins Philadelphia-Albany service this week with interplant General Electric executives as its primary clientele, will become the 102nd and 103rd entries in the air-commuter industry, a fast-growing business that this year expects to haul no less than a million passengers between big and little U.S. cities...
...103rd Street cuts through the heart of Watts. Along its 4-block "business" section are a couple of drug stores, some food counters, and a small clothing store, but most of the buildings are either deserted as a result of the riots or occupied by a government poverty agency. It is also along this strip that Westminister Neighborhood Association, a large all-black organization run mainly on federal funds, has its detached workers' office...
...proud of it, the tired lamentations or Whitney Young, Roy Wilkins, and The Preacher notwithstanding." This is the reeling of the young Negroes, the Jacobins of post-Revolutionary Watts. It is this new self-consciousness that permeates the "half-acre" around the Westminister Neighborhood Association and 103rd Street...
...once a week to see how things are going." Yet the push for a leader who really represents the people has not served to unify the community: the entire Negro population of Los Angeles does not center around the radicals' "half-acre" and for every angry young man on 103rd calling King a bourgeois, there is a man of another, more resigned, generation or one from Baldwin Hills calling Carmichael an anarchist...
Pastard, Karenga, the boys on 103rd -- all believe that the racial situation in America will never be solved through cooperation on the part of whites. The problem is no longer one of white intolerance but one of white power; the aim is no longer to get into a white neighborhood, but to weaken the grip of the white power structure. The angry men of Watts are out to claim their birthright, not to ask for it as though it were a gift. To the young nationalists, no white man, regardless of his ethics, can serve a useful function...