Word: ghettoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst thing I ever did was win an election, says William H. Bailey, 40, the first black ever elected to the Rhode Island state legislature from the ghetto district of south Providence. Until his election last November, Bailey was riding high as the prosperous owner of four apartment buildings. Now his long criminal record has been revealed, and he faces the prospect of serving up to four years in a Michigan prison for larceny...
...million Americans currently out of work, more than half are under age 24, according to Carter. Joblessness among 16-to 19-year-olds runs 18% or more, v. a national average of 7.5%; in urban ghetto areas the figure skyrockets to 40%. To cut into this widespread unemployment, Carter offered a four-part program that contains something old, something new and more than a little borrowed from previous administrations. His proposals...
...justification of Pentagon programs on economic grounds is a sham--it panders to the economic sectors least in need of government aid; those who would lose jobs if the Vought plant in Dallas closed are likely to find jobs more easily than the permanently unemployed of the Dallas ghetto. The central question, as always, is the ordering of governmental priorities, not the preservation of economic interests for their own sake...
...idea, yet, how to make use of this anger, of the energy unleashed by Roots. "We've been given a piece of literature that takes the civil rights struggle to a higher level," said black Congressman John Conyers. "It doesn't cure unemployment or take people out of the ghetto. But it's a democratic statement as eloquent as any that's ever been devised, and we've been talking about what can be done with...
...Administration and the Board of Overseers, and nationalization of Harvard under worker-student-faculty control. We stand for open admissions with a full stipend for all students to enable all who wish to attend, and remedial and tutorial programs for those who have suffered the worthless "education" offered in ghetto and working class high schools in this race, class and sex biased society. The superior academic and research facilities of elite institutions like Harvard must not be reserved for those of wealth and privilege...