Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...detect in the streets of pre-1939 Berlin. Our own seemingly limitless capacity for killing Asians tells us something of what we are actually seeing when we travel across this country. And in the incredible debacle of the Light Brigade at remote Sebastopol, the inhumanity of mid-Victorian England was sharply illuminated...
...banks in the United States; 20 are black controlled. This great gap underlines the economic and entrepreneurial difference between the white economic power structure and black communities in this country. When Unity Bank opened on June 24, it became the first bi-racial bank in the history of New England and the second to exist in the country--The Freedom National Bank in Harlem, established in 1964, was the first...
Community agencies within Roxbury-Dorchester are also receiving free business expertise from Unity. The United Front Foundation, the Joint Center for Inner-City Change, the New England Development Corporation, and Opportunities Industrial Center fall into this group...
Unity finally capitalized last year at $1.2 million and was the first bank in New England to sell its stock to the general public. Many of the $10 shares were sold in $50 blocks to people who had never conceived of owning stock in anything. Roy G. Guittar, executive vice president and the bank's only white employee, said that 70 to 80 percent of the 3,358 shares are owned by residents of the predominantly black Roxbury-Dorchester community. According to Guittar, there is no controlling interest in the bank and the 22-man, unpaid, board of directors...
...Massachusetts placing $360,000 in Unity last week to become the largest single depositor. Previously, the United Front Foundation had the largest account. Brandeis, Andover Theological School, Northeastern University, and Boston College have all become depositors and M.I.T. is a stockholder. A few large Boston corporations including New England Mutual, Prudential Life, New England Telephone, and Boston Gas have also responded. But 65 percent of the 40,000 accounts on record as of last week are from Roxbury and Dorchester...