Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation of the poor is often invisible to the rest of America. Unlike the destitute of other times and places, its inhabitants are not usually distinguishable by any of the traditional telltales of want: hunger-distended bellies or filthy rags, beggar's bowls or the lineaments of despair. Harlem's broad avenues?clean by Calcutta's standards?bop to the stride of lively men and women in multihued clothing; the tawdry tenements of Chicago's South Side are forested with TV antennas. Even in Mississippi's Tunica County, one of the poorest in the nation, where according to the latest...
...YORK: From Slums to Suburbs Black poverty is most evident in the crumbling cores of Northern and Western cities. Walter Pollard, 64, came up from Winston-Salem, N.C., to Harlem in search of a "good job." Today he lives just over the poverty line?$150 a month as a janitor keeps him a scant penny above the $1,710 poverty line for a single man in an urban area. Short (5 ft. 6 in.) and lean in his baggy denim trousers, woolen work jacket and purple longshoreman's cap, he used to support a wife and five children...
Pollard's plight is common enough from Harlem to Newark. But to find poverty in Greenport, L.I., is something else again. As Poet William Cullen Bryant wrote in the 1870s of the tidy, tree-shaded town with its white clapboard houses: "Nowhere is decay or unwholesome poverty apparent." It is not apparent today, but there all the same are migrant labor camps, like the Cutchogue settlement for potato workers, whose four grey-painted World War I barracks house itinerant teams of Florida, Arkansas, Virginia or New Jersey farm hands. Isaiah, 35, the crew chief, is a diminutive Negro from Florida...
Examples of collective action are widespread. At Harlem's only high school, Benjamin Franklin, the College Readiness Program, staffed by white volunteers, has helped 134 students go on to college-and 100 of these to stay there. The program pairs one student and one sponsoring tutor, and it has opened eyes and horizons on both sides of the relationship. Tutoring, which not only helps the young black in a most productive way but also establishes a genuine one-to-one relationship, is widely regarded as a key opportunity for the concerned white. Small discussion groups provide another fruitful area...
...average junior majoring in European history. A one time Boy Scout troop leader, Rudd joined the Columbia branch of Students for a Democratic Society last year, lives in an off-campus apartment adorned with posters of Mao and Che (he visited Cuba earlier this year), has tutored youngsters in Harlem in his spare time...