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...biggest cities, Negro unemployment runs from two to four times higher than white joblessness. The overall rate is 3.5% for Cleveland, but it is 15.6% for the black slum of Hough. Life expectancy for the Negro male has risen to 61.5 years, a level reached in 1931 by whites, who now have an expectancy of 67.7 years. Despite all the publicity designed to discourage Negro youngsters from quitting school, unemployment among Negro high school graduates is 16.1%, while the rate for Negro dropouts is only...
...Jobs Now," as one of its founders explains, concentrates on "the kids who can strip a car in ten minutes but can't pass a mechanical-aptitude test." Half a dozen churches with predominantly Negro congregations have rehabilitated apartments in communities from Cleveland to Kiloch, Wis. In the Hough slum, former Cleveland Browns Football Star Jim Brown and Team mate John Woolen formed the Negro Industrial and Economic Union to help Negroes start their own businesses with the help of no-interest loans...
...cops are trained in riot control. In Newark, well-drilled state troopers took over in many places from the ineffective city police and National Guardsmen. During Cleveland's 1966 eruption, cops with inadequate training were alternately too lenient and too rough with the rampaging residents of Hough. New York's 28,000-man force, more than twice as big as any other in the nation, is also among the most thoroughly drilled in riot control. Commissioner Howard Leary was hired from Philadelphia after his men contained a potentially disastrous riot in 1964, with no deaths...
...Angeles ghetto of Watts went berserk in 1965 after an unemployed high school dropout named Marquette Frye was arrested for drunken driving. In six days of rioting, 35 died, 900 were injured. In 1966, the Cleveland ghetto of Hough erupted when a white bartender denied a glass of ice water to a Negro patron. And in Newark, N.J., a trumpet-playing Negro cab driver by the name of John Smith last week became the random spark that ignited the latest-and one of the most violent-of U.S. race riots...
...immediate cause made the Newark outburst particularly terrifying. It seemed to say that a dozen or so people could be killed in almost any city, any night, by the purest chance. In the past three years, racial riots have flared in some 50 U.S. cities, from Harlem to Hough, Chicago to Cincinnati, Boston to Buffalo, Watts to Waukegan. Most began with a vagrant spark, and often it takes nothing more than that...