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Even as that hope blossomed, an older blight on the American conscience burst through with the capriciousness of a spring freeze. In Memphis, through the budding branches of trees surrounding a tawdry rooming house, a white sniper's bullet cut down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., pre-eminent voice of the just aspirations and long-suffering patience of black America...
Time Inc. President James A. Linen stressed his company's interest in the city of Newark. "In spite of recent problems of racial conflict and urban blight," he said, "we have been most impressed with the community's remarkable spirit and resiliency. In keeping with the Newark News's tradition of community service, we hope and believe that we can make a significant contribution to the city's growth and well-being...
...Education Act, which encourages innovation by individual schools; in the air-and water-pollution-control acts, with their call for state-conceived programs; and in the model-cities bill, which leaves it to the mayors to tie together some 200 different federal urban programs into a coherent attack on blight. Under Johnson, moreover, private enterprise for the first time assumed an active role in the rehabilitation of the nation's cities
...target area of the grant will be a 268-acre region north of Central Square, described in the City's application as having "substandard housing, pockets of blight, overcrowding and mixed land use, and inadequate facilities." Using the facilities of Harvard and M.I.T., and relying heavily on the judgments of residents in the affected area, the program will attempt to achieve long range stability for the neighborhood. Local residents will elect a majority of the members of the agency which will supervise planning under the grant, and they will be able to vote on any final proposals in a referendum...
Figures can also be painful reminders of the things that U.S. society has not achieved. Who can calculate the square miles of slums that beg renovation or the poverty that remains a blight on the industrial society? No fewer than 30 million Americans make up families that earn less than $3,000 per year-the figure set by the Government as the poverty level...