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...they usually are-into classrooms that are not prepared for them. Most job-training projects also receive high marks. Four Government "skills centers" in Los Angeles have provided training for 840 slum residents, finding jobs for 85% of them since the 1965 Watts riot, while Boston's ABCD (Action for Boston Community Development, Inc.) has put 2,800 people into jobs or training since it began its drive a year...
...Thernstrom's critical analysis has already provoked matters of anger from local politicians and officials, and the author frankly admits that the publication would probably "set off a minor furor." The issue is particularly sensitive because the Ford Foundation both helps the Joint Center and is also involved with ABCD. Moynihan insists, however, that both his and Harvard University Press's hesitation in publishing the manuscript is due not to fear of hostile reaction, but rather doubts that a work of such limited scope is appropriate for publication in book form...
...feet up on the desk, and begins to talk excitedly about the changes going on in Roxbury. He touches on urban renewal and construction of new buildings, mentions new schools and community centers, and then federal, state, and local relief programs with unintelligible letter codes--Operation Head Start, ABCD, or the BRA. He also talks about things that aren't changing so fast as one would like them to--crime and violence on the streets, unemployment, bad housing, discouraged people. Then into this quick sketch of the condition of Roxbury, Miller fits his own venture, the Banner...
...People in Roxbury look around them. What do they see? They see urban renewal, crime and violence, the police and the unemployed, the new community centers, and the parades of acronyms (ABCD, BRA, OEO, etc.), and they are confused." No one explains these programs to them. Crucial meetings and decisions go by while the people they most effect know nothing about them. To the outside world this looks like apathy but, says Miller, "If I didn't believe the theory of Negro apathy was unequivocally wrong, I wouldn't be here. I have no doubt the Negro community will respond...
...Bennett is being forced on us," declared William Hurld of South Boston, adding that letters to Bennett were already being delivered to the ABCD office. "I think before we hire anyone, he should have to sign a statement saying he believes is participation of the area people...