Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lawmen throughout the nation: "Protection of life, particularly innocent life, is more important than protecting property. We are not going to turn disorder into chaos through the unprincipled use of armed force; we are not going to shoot children." That drew down on Lindsay the collective wrath of Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant merchants-both black and white-who charge that the mayor has been "soft" on rioters and insensitive to their pleas for city aid in repairing looted and burned-out businesses...
...Negro looters were predominantly driven by a combination of self-help and help-yourself. What of Martin Luther King? "His death just gave us an excuse," said Ronald Rudolph, 22, in Pittsburgh. "I never did dig the man much when he was alive." When a well-provisioned Harlem "liberator" was asked why he was stealing, he cried: "It's because they killed what's-his-name!" "You know why people loot?" explained one young rioter. "Because they ain't never, so long as they live, gonna have enough money to buy a color-television...
...Bridge. In the workers' ghettos, King was sometimes ignored-or worse. He had difficulty in effectively organizing Chicago slum dwellers in 1966; militants in Harlem showered him with rotten eggs in 1965. Many radicals derided his pleas for nonviolence-though few were unmoved by his death, as was New York City's William Epton, who was convicted of conspiring to commit criminal anarchy for his part in the 1964 Harlem riots. "We don't mourn King," said Epton. "We saw him as an obstacle to the black liberation movement. We saw him as a fireman for Kennedy...
...troops moved into Washington, radio and TV newsmen reported that "tanks" were rumbling down New Hampshire Avenue, when in fact they were simply personnel carriers. More recklessly, at the peak of the riot scare, rock-'n'-roll station WABC in Manhattan broadcast on-the-street interviews with Harlem agitators. Cried one: "We were planning to burn down your part of town anyway, but now we can take the whole thing this summer! I want to kill anybody I know who is against anything that's good...
...housing units and 7,551 permanent jobs. Among the projects: a $4,500,000 low-income cooperative rising on nine acres of cleared land in debris-strewn Newark, $8,500,000 to construct 530 single-family houses in Chicago, and $15 million to $20 million to build apartments in Harlem...