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...formerly expected that the council would elect a councillor endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association, since the CCA has a majority of five on the council. However, Edward A. Crane '35, one of the CCA members, abstained from voting in the previous 48 ballots because of his disagreement with a CCA budget proposal...
More often, the new black localism is the work of lesser known figures who are learning how to create black self-help groups, to force coalitions of white civic leaders and black activists where necessary, and to work among the black poor to give them hope and the techniques to improve their living conditions. It is hard, painstaking, unromantic work in which success seldom comes swiftly, but once achieved, can have lasting effect...
Lowell Bergman, 24, a commune leader with a master's degree in philosophy, has initiated meetings with civic leaders, police and the state attorney general's office in an effort to ease relations with the police. He has had little success, even though a report prepared by the city manager affirmed that "a high percentage" of harassment complaints were unfounded. "In a few cases police officers had been provoked," the report added. "For example, a young man waved a Viet Cong flag in the face of a police officer who is a veteran of Viet...
...Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) voted yesterday to dissassociate itself from Edward A. Crane '36, a CCA-endorsed Cambridge city councilman...
...week the school board of Rochester, N.Y., met privately and tentatively agreed to carry out a plan for total integration of the city's 46,000 students, 33% of whom are black. The scheme, which included the busing of 16,700 students, was backed by more than 60 local civic groups, including the Chamber of Commerce and Junior League. It was hailed by New York Education Commissioner Ewald Nyquist as "a beacon for the rest of the country." Three days later, amid rising national agitation over integration, the board met publicly and killed the project...