Word: barony
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Geno Baroni, 43. "Unless you can understand the ethnic factor, you can't understand the cities," warns the director of the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs, which runs programs aimed at developing skills and leadership. Son of an immigrant Pennsylvania coal miner, Father Baroni was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1956, served in working-class parishes in Altoona and Johnstown, Pa. Transferred to Washington, D.C., he became active in civil rights and in 1965 was among the first priests to go to Alabama for the Selma-Montgomery march. He helped launch Washington's Head Start program...
...cities and the poor blacks have taken their place. They feel squeezed between a group that is deserting them and making them bear the brunt of social change and a group that is threatening their schools, neighborhoods and jobs. The combined recession and inflation has hit them hard. Says Baroni: "The ethnic worries how he is going to get the money to send his kid to Penn State and pay for his mother's cortisone shots and keep up the payments on the house and car." The ethnics feel left out and looked down upon, confused and angry...