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...administer to the needs of the impoverished people in the Inner City, then we have nothing to say to anybody." Father Hastie, whose congregation is 90% Negro, battles for his parishioners against city red tape, frequently appears in court to help a worshiper in trouble, has organized civic groups to lobby for urban renewal funds. Says he: "I believe it is the responsibility of the clergy to be a spokesman for or against anything that affects the life of his congregation...
About two miles away, at St. Stephen's parish in Boston's South End, Cuban-born Father Pastor Sotolongo, 29, tries a person-to-person approach. No civic crusader, he spends most of his 20-hour working day quietly trying to provide the basic material needs-food, clothing, shelter-of his largely Puerto Rican parish. "The people who come to see me," he says, "are emergency cases. They don't have time to go through all the red tape and answer all the questions to get aid from the city...
...Chicago home rule. With this power in his pocket, Daley could extract from the ward dukes of his city council a large measure of subservience; he had control over contracts, budgets and jobs. After a series of battles in the council, Daley succeeded in transforming the aldermen into a civic chowder-and-marching society...
...Civic Leadership...
...Industrial Piedmont Cities of Charlotte, Greenville, and Greensboro, in the inland trade centers such as Nashville and Jackson, in the port cities of Savannah, Charleston, and New Orleans, in the heavy industry areas at Knoxville, Chattanooga, Birmingham, and Memphis and especially in Atlanta, are seizing control of the civic leadership. Their natural conservatism is tempered by the overwhelming drive for new progress: they constitute a force of moderatism...