Word: ghettoese
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Speaking before a capacity audience of 400 in Burr B, Farmer said that "the civil rights movement has lost contact with the urban poor" and went on to outline a three-point program by which the movement could help meet "heightened expectations" in the northern ghettoes.
Thirdly, the civil rights leader urged the movement to work for a greatly expanded war-on-poverty program in the northern ghettoes. "Not $1.5 billion, but something like $15 billion is needed," he said. "This is one war that needs to be escalated." He added that the federal government should...
Your writer essentially dismisses the film out of hand as sentimental, fake, and propagandistic. To substantiate such charges he comes up with such strenuous exertions as "the closed culture of Harlem is really a set of defenses," or"... children are an easy mark for sentimental demonstrations." It is good, finally...
Asbell spends most of his pages talking about the educational deficiencies that keep us from taking full advantage of automation. He discusses illiteracy, hard-core poverty, and the rural areas and Negro ghettoes that breed the unemployable. A man who mines coal all day does not, reports Asbell, come out...
Yet, because Malcolm was frank to both whites and Negroes, the blues sung in the ghettoes tonight and for some time to come will be sung for us all. They will be sung for whites, because they must inevitably face the demands, style of life, and vengeance of the silent...