Word: bedford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York, IBM disclosed plans for a plant to make computer cables in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant slum; starting within two months, the factory will employ 300 workers, mostly unskilled, by the end of 1969. Planning is already far advanced, under the federal model-cities program, for something like 4,000 much-needed housing units in Bedford-Stuyvesant and other slum areas of New York. Earlier this month, the Fairchild Hiller Corp., working with a black community group, opened the doors of the new Fairmicco Corp. in Washington's Shaw area. Eventually, Fairmicco, which will turn out such products...
...throughout the nation: "Protection of life, particularly innocent life, is more important than protecting property. We are not going to turn disorder into chaos through the unprincipled use of armed force; we are not going to shoot children." That drew down on Lindsay the collective wrath of Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant merchants-both black and white-who charge that the mayor has been "soft" on rioters and insensitive to their pleas for city aid in repairing looted and burned-out businesses...
Urban programs must create jobs for blacks within the ghetto rather than outside it, Felix Obinani, Director of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Training Program, said last night...
Speaking to an audience of over 150 at Hunt Hall, Obinani described a program he has initiated in the Brooklyn ghetto of Bedford-Stuyvesant. The program seeks to allow "local residents to control their own community...
Obinani blamed the present ghetto condition of Bedford-Stuyvesant on "anti-poverty landlords who exploit the ghetto" and professional planners with no social conscience." He added that the training of the 80 people, most of whom had no city planning experience, was preferable to the use of professional planners "who have been involved in making the situation in the ghetto what it is today...