Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure would be nice to see Detroit get into a "more mileage from less horsepower" advertising campaign and thus act positively in a situation they are partially responsible for creating with 50 years of "more powerful and bigger is better" advertising...
...other Knight dailies: the Akron Beacon-Journal, Boca Raton (Fla.) News, Bradenton (Fla.) Herald, Charlotte (N.C.) News and Observer, Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer and Ledger, Detroit Free Press, Lexington (Ky.) Herald and Leader, Macon (Ga.) News and Telegraph, Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News, and the Tallahassee Democrat...
After the Detroit riots of 1967, in a letter to the Journal of the American Medical Association, Doctors Vernon Mark, associate professor of surgery, William Sweet, professor of surgery, and Frank Ervin, former professor of surgery, cited brain dysfunction in certain individuals as a possible factor in urban riots. They called for intensive research to diagnose and treat "those people with low violence thresholds before they contribute to future tragedies...
...Detroiters have done just that for years with no result. Their schools are going broke. At night, the city's residents avoid going out for fear of violence; that violence included a record 750 homicides last year. Race relations have scarcely improved since the 1967 riot in which 43 people were killed. So many whites have fled to the suburbs that the city's population dropped 8% in the past three years alone, to 1.4 million. Now, more than half of Detroit's residents are black, and many are poor...
...Young, 55, the son of a tailor raised in Detroit's Black Bottom ghetto, the celebration seemed "more like a coronation than an inauguration." It capped a lifetime of fighting for black rights, first as a union organizer at the Ford Motor Co. in the late 1930s, later as a leader of the leftist National Negro Labor Council in the '50s and as a politician in the '60s. A state senator since 1964, he fought for passage of an open-housing law and against a ban on busing children to integrate schools. In both cases, whites from...