Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passengers in Atlanta have been staring at some unusual posters in recent weeks. "They fixed my porch, but then they took my house!" one proclaims. "I'd rather walk clean across town than pay 45? for a bunch of greens!" advertises another...
...publicity campaign by the city's Legal Aid Society, the slogans warn the poor-most of them uneducated Negroes-against some common forms of exploitation. They also serve as a warning to the exploiters. Under a Legal Aid Society program, some of the smartest young lawyers in Atlanta's top firms are taking their Saturdays and other days off to defend the poor...
Young lawyers in many cities are representing the poor in their spare time. They handle everything from criminal matters to consumer complaints and even divorces. But Atlanta has one of the most aggressive programs. The Legal Aid Society has 21 regular staffers and 56 volunteer lawyers who spend their weekends hearing complaints in ghetto offices. They are responsible for seeing each case through, even if they must work on it during the regular work week. Their employers do not seem to mind. In fact, the society's board of directors is composed mostly of senior lawyers from the volunteers...
Starting to Scare. Director Padnos, 33, a University of Chicago Law School graduate, is the man most responsible for turning the Atlanta Legal Aid Society into an effective and exciting organization. "We're just scratching the surface," says Padnos, who wants to double the size of his volunteer staff to 100 lawyers this year. "There are still plenty of people being victimized for every one we help." But the weekend lawyers are at least beginning to fight back against those who once took advantage of the poor without risk of either exposure or interference...
...city's insularity does not really worry Promoter Seltzer all that much. The rest of the country knows all too well what he is doing. Take Atlanta, for example. Last week 3,600 Roller Derby fans jampacked Municipal Auditorium to watch the touring San Francisco Bay Bombers battle the New England Braves. The fundamentals of the game were easy enough to grasp: with men and women alternating, two teams of five skaters each circle a banked oval track in a tight cluster. Then one or two skaters from each team break from the pack and attempt to score points...