Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Resistance to Change. What its defenders did their best to ignore was the National Guard's sorry performance during the summer riots in Newark and Detroit. In both cities, several deaths were attributed to unnecessary gunfire from Guardsmen. The regular Army generals who commanded the Michigan contingent reported that that state's Guardsmen were trigger-happy, scary and undisciplined. In the wake of the Detroit upheaval, the President's Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders also found that Negro representation in the Army Guard is minuscule (1.15% nationwide v. 10.6% in the Army in Viet Nam), officer quality...
...even from unit to unit. Some Guard units this summer performed more than creditably in the troublesome task of quelling rioters, and 1,300 Texas Guardsmen worked night and day last week in protecting the populace against the ravages of Hurricane Beulah. Yet its overall performance in Newark and Detroit poses timely questions about its fundamental purpose that no amount of speechmaking can hide...
Teachers in Detroit and-barring a last-minute contract rejection by union members-New York agreed last week to go back to work. They won salary increases, broke through a few barriers on educational policy. But mostly they demonstrated their new political clout -and left more than a little bitterness in the wake of their walkouts...
Some 11,000 Detroit teachers, including 6,400 members of the American Federation of Teachers, will get raises of $850 annually for two years, work one week less a year, enjoy a bigger voice in textbook selection and curriculum changes. They also won a 30-child limit on class size in the first three grades of ghetto schools and a 39-student limit in all other classes. Unhappy school-board members could only shrug their shoulders when asked where most of the $18.7 million for pay raises will come from, nod hopefully toward the state legislature...
...Wilson, she was a director of numerous companies and a trustee of Michigan State University (then a college) from 1932 to 1938. Her most munificent gift was a $10 million package of land and cash donated to M.S.U. in 1957 for the founding of a new school: suburban Detroit's Oakland University, which now has an enrollment of 3,800 students...