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UNITY was conceived two years ago by John T. Hayden, a black graduate of the Harvard Business School. After writing a term paper about the economic needs of the ghetto community, Hayden decided to establish a community-based commercial bank in Roxbury. He contacted Sneed, who, at, that time, owned a small real estate business in Roxbury and was involved in civil rights boycotts and bussing attempts...
...Hayden and Sneed laid the plans for Unity, contacting faculty members at the Business School and black professional people in Roxbury for advice. The Unity Bank Association, consisting of 88 organizers of the bank was formed in late 1966, and carried on the work without Hayden when he was drafted soon after graduation...
...Hayden praised the Black Panther Party's means of community control as "the most important thing going on in this country today." He endorsed the Panthers' declaration of war on intruders into the ghetto. "The police are an occupying army of brutes, sadists, and thieves who have no right to survive so long as they control the ghetto community," he said...
...Hayden said whites and blacks face the same organs of repression. "You can't humanize the monster--the military and corporations," he said. Some people in this society, he said, will have to be wiped out politically or exterminated. "Fascists and radicals cannot live together--it is not a matter of conversion," he said...
...listener who said he had come to find out what he as a city planner could do to abate the urban crisis, was disappointed. "I have no idea how you can be useful," Hayden told...