Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Love of country requires criticism when it appears to be warranted. Criticism is carried out according to one's abilities and modes of expression. Adults criticize verbally; children rage and break things. When verbalization moves our country's course absolutely nowhere, why is it assumed that the storming of the Pentagon was not largely the raging and breaking of children, many of them intensely in love with their country? POLLY BOHMFALK Dallas...
Professional Hazards. No one had worked harder or gone farther than Richard Gordon Hatcher himself. Born in a Michigan City waterfront jungle called "The Patch," he was the twelfth of 13 children. His father, a factory worker, was usually laid off half the year. "We had," understates Hatcher, "a very difficult time of it." Instead of surrendering to slum life, Hatcher went to Indiana University by dint of a church stipend, a small track scholarship and his willingness to wait on tables. After earning his bachelor's degree, he went to Indiana's Valparaiso University Law School, where...
...rent strike began. A handful of Puerto Ricans, nine families in all, refused to pay their rent until the slumlord brought the buildings up to Housing Code standards. He responded by turning off the heat one night in the apartment of one of the strikers and her four children. But they held...
Iglesias and a new assistant, Alfredo DeJesus, picked education as the next mobilizing issue. Last spring they marched 40 children and their mothers down to the headquarters of SNAP (South End Neighborhood Action Program), the local branch of the War on Poverty. The group demanded that SNAP give them funds to start their own version of Head-start, a tutoring program for pre-school children. Reginald Eaves, director of SNAP, gave his consent, and appropriated $700 to pay for textbooks and supplies. Several mothers volunteered as teachers, and the "Action School" opened in a local church...
...Federal programs have to observe OEO (Office of Economic Opportunity (guidelines. If we set up a job training program with federal money, we couldn't enroll people who were poor but not below OEO guidelines. People on welfare with five children are getting more money than the OEO guidelines...