Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lane decided that his bank, the biggest in the Deep South (assets: $1.5 billion), should become deeply involved in increasing home ownership and black capitalism in deprived areas. As a first step, he devised "the Georgia Plan," which starts with local cleanup drives and leads to high-risk improvement loans...
...plan is well under way in Savannah, where 40 impoverished Negroes have been helped to buy homes and 23 have received loans to begin or expand their own businesses. The bank has also mounted cleanup campaigns in the Negro neighborhoods of Valdosta and Albany, Ga., where thousands of blacks and whites together swept up and carted away hundreds of tons of junk. When the campaign was repeated in Savannah, some 30,000 people showed up to participate. Last week Lane introduced his plan to seven other Georgia cities, including Atlanta...
Back in the late 1950s, Ellis was one of a handful of Seattleites who decided that the waters of Lake Washington were so polluted that a cleanup was overdue...
Without Miracles. That ridiculous act reflects the tension that grips Brazil these days. A vast majority of Brazilians applauded the overthrow of Leftist João Goulart in 1964, and the cleanup started by the new military-backed regime of General Humberto Castello Branco was obviously necessary. When War Minister Arthur Costa e Silva was elected President by Congress in 1966, Brazilians listened to his promise to "humanize" the bureaucracy, promote a "Year of Education" and declare war on inflation. He did manage to slash the annual rate of inflation from 40% to 25%. The nation's gross national...
...leading civil rights figure, Abernathy became the whip of the movement, and his humor and gift for mediation were invaluable. "When we were in jail," recalls Wyatt Tee Walker, once executive director of the S.C.L.C. and now aide to Nelson Rockefeller, "he would organize things, like appointing a cleanup detail. Martin would never go to jail without him." Abernathy was jailed 19 times with his leader. In appreciation of his fidelity, King named Abernathy as his successor three years...