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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eleven universities in the Boston area, including Harvard, are planning a joint college for the purpose of educating the poor and minority groups in Roxbury...
Williams favors a large degree of local political and economic autonomy because local needs relate to ethnic, cultural, and ecological factors. Only the people living in an area really understand their own needs...
...operates two supermarkets in the black community employing approximately 125 workers. The company purchased the two markets from Purity-Supreme and buys central management services at cost from the Purity chain. The stores sell goods at competitive supermarket prices about equivalent to Purity's, the price leader in the area. (Williams said some variance exists because of ethnic prefences--"For instance, lamb does not do well in this community, so we sell it at a lower price...
...think that anyone wants two colleges, but exactly what will be done in this area is still to be worked out," Spencer C. MacDonald, Harvard Coordinator for Governmental Relations, said yesterday. "We are also still very much up in the air as to just how we can contribute to the project. We have been to three meetings convened by the Model Cities people, but much still remains to be worked...
...financial problems is another of the unresolved questions. The Model Cities project budgeted almost $1.5 million for the college, but provided only $110,000 of federal money. The planners hope for large contributions from the area colleges, but the college administrators have all cited scarcity of funds...