Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...signaled a night of blood and violence: these two incidents outline the double view that New York's thousands of Negro and Puerto Rican citizens hold of their Mayor. Lindsay demonstrates his almost puritanical commitment to the principle of social equality every day: he walks the streets of Harlem, he appoints a civilian review board, he fights with Washington for more anti-poverty money. But these sincere efforts have so far failed to bring forth much that people can see. The boredom, frustration, and poverty of the East New York streets exploded with an impatience for results...
Lindsay's third attack on the status quo focused on improving the level of city services in ghetto areas. The Mayor's creative, publicity-minded Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving hired some teen-age leaders from Bedford Stuyvesant and Harlem to advise him on the design and placement of parks in their neighborhoods; he imported swimming pools into ghetto parks, and he provided free bus service for groups to any park in the city. Welfare Commissioner Nathan Ginsberg began a more difficult battle against his 18,000-man bureaucracy. He cut out the infamous "midnight raids" on welfare clients which were...
...unannounced into the offices of community organizations and businesses, stopping to answer questions, to clean up litter, or to note down a rubbish-filled vacant lot or a particularly dirty street. Residents are only too eager to show him their problems. On one walk a few weeks ago in Harlem, a group of teen-agers ran up to the Mayor waving a dead rat, one of them shouting: "Man, Mayor, this is where the clean-up is it, baby. Look at this...
Also, community leaders in poverty areas are fast learning the rules of the funding game. And the number one rule is that violence brings results. Well-known ghettos such as Harlem, Bedford Stuyvesant and the Lower East Side continue to get the lion's share of the anti-poverty pie. As leaders in competing ghettos see it, they get money because they have an "in," because they are well organized, and because they act ferocious...
...Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee seems to have taken those words as its battle hymn in organizing a Black Panther Party in Harlem this summer, similar to the one it has fathered in Lowndes County, Alabama...