Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curfew each day by degrees, and the violence subsided after four nights. Urban Coalition. Widespread reliance on martial law is hardly an appealing prospect for the long run. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner, a member of an informal Cabinet task force that began meeting during the Detroit riot, is convinced that only programs giving slum residents jobs' education, housing and the other amenities of an affluent society can end race conflict. Gardner also believes that the Federal Government must have the assistance of private industry, and that the Government "needs to come forward with more imaginative ways...
Some businessmen have already joined the effort. An organization called New Detroit representing all sectors of the community, was formed to assist the city's restoration. The National Urban Coalition, representing industry, labor, local government, churches and civil rights groups, organized and issued an ambitious manifesto for reform. In city halls, state houses, and chamber of commerce offices across the country, officials and businessmen mobilized to provide jobs...
...were signs that the larger white society was groping for the words. In Los Angeles, Democratic Mayor Sam Yorty, who has never been a conspicuous champion of the Negro cause, declared: "We must find ways of guaranteeing any man who wants to work a job-whatever it costs." In Detroit, Vice President Humphrey reasoned: "Whatever it will take to get the job done, we must be willing to pay the price." In a Senate hearing room, North Carolina's Senator Sam Ervin held up a stack of civil rights bills that ran to 1,212 pages and weighed...
...wealthier whites in better neighborhoods. During a brief outburst of rioting in Watts last year, the arsonists' first target was a supermarket chain that habitually stocked the shelves of its slum stores with scraggly meat and wilted vegetables that white customers had rejected in other outlets. In Detroit's slums, a 5-lb. bag of flour costs 14? more than in fashionable Grosse Pointe, Mich., peas 12? more per can, eggs up to 250 more per dozen. A television set selling for $124.95 in downtown Detroit costs $189 in a ghetto shop. In many slums, door-todoor salesmen...
...Israeli victory and the causes of Boeing 727 crashes, Hotz aims to investigate the "sociological implications" of aerospace technology. "As an industry that embraces the spectrum of modern technology," he wrote last week, "the aerospace industry has a special responsibility to respond to the challenges of a Newark or Detroit. It has technology that could be applied, from new and less lethal methods of riot control to systems planning and management capacity. This technology could redesign urban complexes, create effective regional transportation systems and provide the jobs that would absorb much of the energies now dissipated in violence...