Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daddy Webb. Chicago has also escaped serious injury so far this summer, at least in part because three large youth gangs, the Garfield Cobras, the Blackstone Rangers and the Disciples, have decided to block violence. Catastrophe might easily have occurred last week when a white storekeeper killed a Negro on the South Side, but the Disciples kept the peace. In Venice, Calif., the newly formed Gangbusters persuaded police to leave a crowd of 500 angry Negro kids, then dispersed the gathering without incident. In Atlanta, a number of "crisis patrols" have been organized that also include ex-convicts. The patrols...
Self-Help. In scores of cities, Negro self-help projects are under way. "Operation Bootstrap" in Watts, launched with a $1,000 loan and Negro-run, has placed 175 graduates in skilled jobs in the past six months. In Indianapolis, Schoolteacher Mattie Rice Coney organized 500 block clubs to clean up the ghetto, figures that her group has swept up 42,000 tons of trash in the last year. "Slums are made by people," she says, "not by plaster or bricks. Civic rebuilding begins with people who care about themselves...
...Yertle the Turtle) have captivated some 33 million buyers of children's books. Hamming it up for the kids, he popped in front of drawings by Henry Moore, brought gales of youthful laughter as he told them the artist's name was either "Heinrich Moorehaus or Schweinhenkel Block-haus, or maybe Schweinehund Block-enkopf." He stared at the misplaced toes a girl had attached to a bongo drum-playing doll, asked: "Is that a three-toed tree toad?" He told others that he was working on "a boomerang that won't return," and has given "slipper-flippers...
...convolutions of the General Assembly look like a bad farce which suffers from delusions of grandeur. It seems fantastic that the United Nations can first ignite a house-fire by withdrawing the only peace-keeping force in the area, and then proclaim itself the only fire-engine on the block when the flames threaten the world community...
Barnett gained local popularity and national attention by standing in the school-house door at the University of Mississippi in order to block desegregation. Ironically, that stand five years ago has cost him support now. Extremists figure that he did not go far enough in the Ole Miss. crisis. Robert F. Kennedy, then the Attorney General, has said that he and Barnett agreed that Barnett could make a short stand and then get out of the way. Mississippi rednecks call it selling out. Charges of financial corruption and old age (he is 69) have further damaged the Barnett cause...