Word: harlem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dull." And circulation rose a bit. Then the 1962-63 printers' strike smashed the effort. Another economy drive had already got Denson (he missed too many deadlines), and after the strike, the Trib began vainly trying to imitate his style without his spark. When the 1964 Harlem riots broke on a Saturday night, the Trib refused to break its solidly locked Sunday front page, covered the story inside. And all along the paper kept losing money...
...ethnic groups who have made contributions to the world. American or the State of Michigan societies." California enacted a similar law last year. The N.A.A.C.P is compiling lists of text it considers fair, vows "community action and protest" against school boards that approve books it deems "distorted or segregated." Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell will question textbook publishers at hearings on the topic by his House Education and Labor Committee late this month...
Summer is the season of rioting, when the fetid heat of the slums and the sloughs of despair combine to send minorities into the streets. So far this summer, nothing has happened on the order of the huge and destructive Harlem and Watts riots, but that is little cause for congratulations or complacency. Each week for most of the summer, the nation has been plagued by a dizzying number of simmering racial disturbances, any one of which might explode into massive proportions. Last week was one of particularly widespread unrest...
...train seminarians for the pastoral and missionary ministry, is, in Bonnell's opinion, uniquely suited now to specialize in urban ministry. It has on its staff such experts as the Rev. George W. Webber, who has led a program of community and spiritual renewal in East Harlem. As a condition for accepting the seminary's presidency, Bonnell has been given a free hand in overhauling the curriculum, which will soon offer new masters' degrees in pastoral counseling and urban ministry, complete with on-the-job training in slum parishes...
...talked coolly with street-gang leaders and SPONGE officials. Unknown to most New Yorkers was the fact that the mayor has been making tours of the ghetto areas ever since his inauguration last January. Before last week's violence, he strode one evening among the crowds of East Harlem, played the bongo drums with a pickup front-stoop combo, was bear-hugged by a blind Negro, tried with unquenchable determination to tidy up the streets. Another day the mayor went into the Canarsie section of Brooklyn, plowed into an angry crowd that was clamoring menacingly for more schools...